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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Pinot vs. ArangoDB vs. Graphite vs. Tarantool

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.compinot.apache.orgarangodb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.arangodb.comgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsArangoDB Inc.Chris DavisVK
Initial release19992015201220062008
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.0, September 20233.11.5, November 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++PythonC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashNumeric data onlystring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenonoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
HTTP API
Sockets
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsJavaScriptnoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesnonoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infosince version 2.0noneSharding, 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 nodesyesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornoneAsynchronous 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 methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
noneCasual 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 integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
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AltibaseApache PinotArangoDBGraphiteTarantool
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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