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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Tarantool vs. Trafodion vs. Yanza

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.tarantool.io

trafodion.apache.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Yanza

Initial release

2005

2008

2014

2015

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.10.0, May 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

yes, via HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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