DBMS > MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Tigris

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2013

2010

2022

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.