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DBMS > MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.78
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#143  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperMonetDB BVTeradata
Initial release20042014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200520172009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyesschema-free
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 functionalityyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
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#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsR packagesyesno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno

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