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DBMS > MonetDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverwww.postgres-xl.orgquestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVPerconaQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SC
Initial release200420082014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20142011
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20238.0.36-28, 202410 R1, October 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++CJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Ryesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
MonetDBPercona Server for MySQLPostgres-XLQuestDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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