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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. SQLite vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

TiDB 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 model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

phoenix.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

phoenix.apache.org

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2000

2016

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

A real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

TPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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