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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. SpaceTime vs. TiDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.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 modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.gbase.cngeospock.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimepingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockMireoPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release200420202016
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20198.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)A subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#C#
C++
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 proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AntDBGBaseGeoSpockSpaceTimeTiDB
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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