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DBMS > Tarantool vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Tarantool vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.tarantool.ioterminusdb.comvelocitydb.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperVKDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB IncVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2008201820112018
Current release2.10.0, May 202211.0.0, January 20237.xv1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Prolog, RustC#Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
macOS
LinuxAny that supports .NETFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (WOQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsOpen binary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.NetGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
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.Graph PartitioningSharding
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)
Journaling StreamsSynchronous replication
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
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
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 transactionsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, cooperative multitaskingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, write ahead loggingyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
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 persistenceyesno
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
Role-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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