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DBMS > MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.22
Rank#137  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score26.92
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgpostgis.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperMonetDB BVSybase, SAP
Initial release200420051993
Current releaseJul2021-SP2, July 20213.3.4, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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