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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan vs. WakandaDB

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented 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
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperMonetDB BVSplice MachineAurelius, owned by DataStaxWakanda SAS
Initial release20042014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201420122012
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202310 R1, October 20183.1, March 20212.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCCJavaJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesnono
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
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP API
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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsyes infoJavayesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendsnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes

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