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System Properties Comparison Tarantool vs. TiDB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Vertica vs. WakandaDB

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NameTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.tarantool.iopingcap.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawww.vertica.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabledocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatavertica.com/­documentationwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperVKPingCAP, Inc.Rocket SoftwareOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardWakanda SAS
Initial release20082016198520052012
Current release2.10.0, May 20228.1.0, May 202412.0.3, January 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Go, RustCC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
macOS
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesoptionalyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyesyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.no
APIs and other access methodsOpen binary protocolGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLua, C and SQL stored proceduresnoyesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesyes
Triggersyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsnoyes infoU2 Basicyes, called Custom Alertsyes
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.horizontal partitioning (by key range)nonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningnone
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)
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infowith TiSpark Connectornono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infofull support since version 6.6noyes
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 transactionsACIDACID infoconfigurableACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, cooperative multitaskingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, write ahead loggingyesyesyesyes
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 persistencenonono
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
Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashyes
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TarantoolTiDBUniData,UniVerseVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™WakandaDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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