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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. RisingWave vs. SpatiaLite

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgquasar.aiwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVquasardbRisingWave LabsAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2004200920222008
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 20241.2, September 20235.0.0, August 2020
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 infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++RustC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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 infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RnoUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and Rolesno

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