DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. MariaDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. MariaDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

McObject

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2001

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1992

2008

Current release

8.2, 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

11.3.2, February 2024

17, July 2015

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

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

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

in enterprise version only

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

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

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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