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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#145	Overall
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Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
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Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

MonetDB BV

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2009

2013

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Erlang

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

simple password-based access control

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