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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

MonetDB BV

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

SiteWhere

Initial release

2004

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5, January 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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