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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2015

1994

2008

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

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++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

rights management via user accounts

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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