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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

MonetDB BV

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

8Kdata

Initial release

2004

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

2016

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.4, October 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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