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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. TiDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLTiDB 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 modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.sequoiadb.compingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBaiduSequoiadb Ltd.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2008201820132016
Current release2.3.4, January 20210.98.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
proprietary protocol using JSONGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
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 infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javaasynchronous Gremlin script jobsJavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparknoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers, roles and permissionssimple password-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBHBaseHugeGraphSequoiadbTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB 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 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 modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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