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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. Tarantool

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.memcached.orgwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAltibaseExasolCirconus LLC.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalVK
Initial release19992000201720032008
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V0.10.20, January 20181.6.27, May 20242.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen 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++C and C++CC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnostring, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIProprietary protocolOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyes, in LuanoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesyesnonoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding, 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 nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityAsynchronous 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 methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesCasual 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 integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess 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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