DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BoltDB vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BoltDB vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

TiDB is an open source distributed Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that supports MySQL and Spark SQL syntaxes.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.45
Rank	#250	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#232	Overall
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	134.73
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#350	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	3.54
Rank	#93	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/35387.htm

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2000

2020

2016

Current release

3.38.4 (4 May 2022), May 2022

0.5, April 2021

5.0.1, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

C++

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

currently only supported in syntax

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept. No user groups or roles.

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Shopee (E-commerce) BookMyShow.com (E-commerce) Yiguo.com (E-commerce) JD Cloud &...
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Market metrics

25K+ GitHub Stars for TiDB, and 8K+ GitHub Stars for TiKV 1.6K+ members in TiDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source Apache 2.0 with either commercial licensing or fully-hosted DB-as-a-service...
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