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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Tarantool vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	3.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.81
Rank	#152	Overall
	#27	Key-value stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#190	Overall
	#16	Graph DBMS
	#91	Relational DBMS

Website

rethinkdb.com

www.tarantool.io

vaticle.com

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.vaticle.com

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Vaticle (formerly Grakn Labs)

Initial release

2009

2008

2016

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

2.10.0, May 2022

2.16.1, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Open binary protocol

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

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

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes, with SQL

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID, read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

yes

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users and roles

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

AGPL and Commercial . The commercial license is priced based on cluster resources...
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