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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Hypertable vs. InfinityDB vs. QuestDB vs. TiDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataTiDB 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.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comboilerbay.comquestdb.iopingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualquestdb.io/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeHypertable Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.QuestDB Technology IncPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20122009200220142016
Current release7.0, November 20230.9.8.11, March 20164.08.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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 indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
C++ API
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyesnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynonoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafHypertableInfinityDBQuestDBTiDB
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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