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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Riak TS vs. Tarantool vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#139	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

griddb.net

www.tarantool.io

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Ultipa

Initial release

2013

2015

2008

2019

Current release

5.1, August 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

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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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes, limited

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Open binary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual 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

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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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