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DBMS > OrientDB vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. Tarantool

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websiteorientdb.orgpostgis.netrockset.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.rockset.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPRocksetVK
Initial release2010200520192008
Current release3.2.29, March 20243.4.2, February 20242.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)hostedBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.noyesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, Javascriptuser defined functionsnoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
TriggersHooksyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLAutomatic shardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyCasual 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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess 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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