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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Trafodion

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgpouchdb.comwww.sequoiadb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indextrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVApache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2004201220132014
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20237.1.1, June 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingSharding
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 replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
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-standardnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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