DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Document store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigquery

sphinxsearch.com

terminusdb.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2001

2018

2016

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

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++

Prolog, Rust

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript
Python

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

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Journaling Streams

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

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

- 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

TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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