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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#150	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2012

2010

2008

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a document possible

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

Optimistic locking

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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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