DBMS > RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. Tarantool vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. Tarantool vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

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

Website

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

www.tarantool.io

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2018

2008

2012

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

C++ API
Java API

Open binary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

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

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

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

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

simple authentication-based access control

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