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DBMS > MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. QuestDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. QuestDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comquestdb.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesquestdb.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMonetDB BVApache Software FoundationQuestDB Technology IncDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20042014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201220142018
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202310 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCJavaScriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCnoACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control
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