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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Linter vs. Tarantool vs. TDengine

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)RDBMS for high security requirementsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionRelational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#368  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#139  Overall
#25  Document stores
#24  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdblinter.ruwww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperCognitectSoftmotionsrelex.ruVKTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20122012199020082019
Current release1.0.7180, July 20242.10.0, May 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC and C++C and C++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Open binary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSource-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual 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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
yes
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Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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