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System Properties Comparison Tarantool vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.tarantool.io

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2008

2018

2023

2011

Current release

2.10.0, May 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

1.0, May 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Open binary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

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

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, write ahead logging

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

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

Role-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Based on Windows Authentication

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