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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cachelot.io vs. Dgraph vs. TiDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

In-memory caching system

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

dgraph.io/docs

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2015

2016

2011

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.1.0, May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Memcached protocol

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Planned for future releases

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

TiDB 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 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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