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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Tarantool vs. Trino vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.mysql.com

www.tarantool.io

trino.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

www.xtdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Trino Software Foundation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1995

2008

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2019

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

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

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Open binary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

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 with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

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

depending on connected data-source

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

depending on connected data-source

yes, each node contains all data

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

depending on connected data-source

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, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

depending on connected data-source

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

SQL standard access control

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