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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

origodb.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

MonetDB BV

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2004

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2004

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

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
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

none

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

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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