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DBMS > Altibase vs. CockroachDB vs. jBASE vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CockroachDB vs. jBASE vs. Tarantool

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#139  Overall
#25  Document stores
#24  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAltibaseCockroach LabsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)VK
Initial release1999201519912008
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202324.1.0, May 20245.72.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalstring, 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesnoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingSharding, 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 nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTyesAsynchronous 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 methodsnonono
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 integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID, 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 persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess 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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