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DBMS > Kinetica vs. Tarantool vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Tarantool vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.tarantool.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperKineticaVKTeradataTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122008200519872011
Current release7.1, August 20212.10.0, May 2022Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Open binary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLua, C and SQL stored proceduresR packagesyesno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationCasual 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
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistencenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess 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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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