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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Spatial extension of SQLite

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

www.postgres-xl.org

spark.apache.org/sql

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

MonetDB BV

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2004

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

2008

1987

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

10 R1, October 2018

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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