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System Properties Comparison SQLite vs. Tarantool vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	133.82
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#274	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sqlite.org

www.tarantool.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2000

2008

1987

Current release

3.41.1 (10 March 2023), March 2023

2.10.0, May 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

BSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Open binary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes, with SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, read commited

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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