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DBMS > MonetDB vs. RethinkDB vs. RisingWave vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. RethinkDB vs. RisingWave vs. SQLite

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgrethinkdb.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017RisingWave LabsDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2004200920222000
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232.4.1, August 20201.2, September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++RustC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryStandard SQL-types and JSONyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RUDFs in Python or Javano
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
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 dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers and Rolesno

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