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DBMS > MonetDB vs. openGemini vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. openGemini vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
www.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.opengemini.org/­guidewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVHuawei and openGemini communitySiteWhere
Initial release200420222014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2010
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20231.1, July 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCGoCJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators and common users accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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