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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. openGauss vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#189	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.monetdb.org

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

MonetDB BV

Huawei and openGauss community

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2004

2019

2011

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.0, March 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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