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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. SingleStore vs. Vitess

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgquasar.aioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.singlestore.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masteross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.singlestore.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVquasardbTobias OetikerSingleStore Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20042009199920132013
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 20241.8.0, 20228.5, January 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++, GoGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux info64 bit version requiredDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languagenoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnonoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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