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DBMS > MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Alex KashirinApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2004198420202014
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20237.4.1.1, 20210.5, April 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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