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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. Tarantool vs. TerarkDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. Tarantool vs. TerarkDB vs. Vitess

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.kinetica.comwww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbvitess.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.kinetica.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperKineticaVKByteDance, originally TerarkThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162012200820162013
Current release7.1, August 20212.10.0, May 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++C and C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimenoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Open binary protocolC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLua, C and SQL stored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationCasual 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
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and roles on table 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
noUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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