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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Citus vs. RDF4J vs. Tarantool vs. Valentina Server

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.citusdata.comrdf4j.orgwww.tarantool.iowww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.citusdata.comrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAlibabaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.VKParadigma Software
Initial release20162010200420081999
Current release8.1, December 20182.10.0, May 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF SchemasFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Open binary protocolODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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