DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

drill.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

terminusdb.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

drill.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2019

2012

2014

2018

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

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

Prolog, Rust

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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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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