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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMonetDB BVOracleApache Software FoundationByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2004201120142016
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202323.3, December 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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