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DBMS > MonetDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Prometheus

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsWidely used in-process key-value storeA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclePercona
Initial release2004199420152015
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202318.1.40, May 20203.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RnoJavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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