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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.monetdb.org

rocksdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Juxt Ltd.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2004

2013

2020

2019

2009

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

Source-replica replication

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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