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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero vs. TiDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleTiDB 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 modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberopingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAlibabaObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.TmaxSoftPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2017200120032016
Current release3.5.1, February 20236, April 20158.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C and AssemblerGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
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 proceduresyesnonoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)no
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono infoplanned for next versionno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLObjectBoxSphinxTiberoTiDB
Specific characteristicsA 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 advantagesTPC 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 scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable 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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