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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

MonetDB BV

STS Soft SC

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2004

2011

2010

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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