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System Properties Comparison Tarantool vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	1.36
Rank	#146	Overall
	#28	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#139	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.tarantool.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2008

1998

Current release

2.4.2, July 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

Open binary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source 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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes, with SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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DB-Engines blog posts

Data processing speed and reliability: in-memory synchronous replication
9 November 2021, Vladimir Perepelytsya, Tarantool (sponsor)

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