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DBMS > Tarantool vs. TerarkDB vs. VoltDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Tarantool vs. TerarkDB vs. VoltDB vs. YottaDB

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NameTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.voltdb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.voltdb.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperVKByteDance, originally TerarkVoltDB Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2008201620102001
Current release2.10.0, May 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Java, C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X infofor development
Docker
Linux
Data schemeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimenoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsOpen binary protocolC++ API
Java API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLua, C and SQL stored proceduresnoJava
Triggersyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCasual 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 integrityyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, write ahead loggingyesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
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 persistenceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
noUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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