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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	6.24
Rank	#70	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#155	Overall
	#27	Key-value stores

Website

www.actian.com/data-management/ingres-sql-rdbms

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Actian Corporation

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2008

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes, with SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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