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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TimesTen vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

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

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

MonetDB BV

Alex Kashirin

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2004

2020

1998

2010

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

0.5, April 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

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

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

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

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C++

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

PL/SQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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