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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. Tarantool vs. Valentina Server vs. VoltDB

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NameRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsObject-relational database and reports serverDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteravendb.netwww.tarantool.iowww.valentina-db.netwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationravendb.net/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­docvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperHibernating RhinosVKParadigma SoftwareVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2010200819992010
Current release5.4, July 20222.10.0, May 20225.7.511.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterprisecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#C and C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (RQL)Full-featured ANSI SQL supportyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Open binary protocolODBCJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyesJava
Triggersyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesno
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.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Casual 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 integritynoyesyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseAccess 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-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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