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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.comterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVSequoiadb Ltd.DataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2004201320182014
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202311.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++Prolog, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RJavaScriptyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationJournaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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