DBMS > Altibase vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. TiDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Altibase

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

Amazon Web Services

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2004

2021

2016

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

temporal, categorical

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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