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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

origodb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

origodb.com/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

MonetDB BV

Robert Friberg et al

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

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

simple password-based access control

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