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DBMS > MonetDB vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
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
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgorientdb.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperMonetDB BVOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPHibernating RhinosOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2004201020102015
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.29, March 20245.4, July 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC#Erlang
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (RQL)yes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RJava, JavascriptyesErlang
TriggersyesHooksyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphsnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno

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