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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	0.83
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#242	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	1.40
Rank	#149	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Altibase

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

1999

2008

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

V8.0, August 2021

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Standard with numerous extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access 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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