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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. AntDB vs. Ehcache vs. EsgynDB vs. TiDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionTiDB 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 DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.ehcache.orgwww.esgyn.cnpingcap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAltibaseAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGEsgynPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release1999200920152016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.10.0, March 20228.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, JavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL2016 compliantnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAda
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 proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication between multi datacentersUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AltibaseAntDBEhcacheEsgynDBTiDB
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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