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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Tarantool vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

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

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

www.tarantool.io

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2008

1984

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

Open binary protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

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

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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