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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tarantool vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.tarantool.io

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

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Juxt Ltd.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2009

1993

2008

2019

2009

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

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

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Open binary protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

yes, each node contains all data

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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