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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. RavenDB vs. Tarantool

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessravendb.netwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessravendb.net/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperChris DavisEmbarcaderoMicrosoftHibernating RhinosVK
Initial release20061984199220102008
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.4, July 20222.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++C#C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesnostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language (RQL)Full-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change ViewsnoneMulti-source replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Casual 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 integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Authorization levels configured per client per databaseAccess 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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