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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. TiDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsTiDB 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 DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgepingcap.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFairCom CorporationPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2014200919792016
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.10.0, March 2022V3, October 20208.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaANSI C, C++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCacheADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
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 functionsnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PhoenixEhcacheFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGETiDB
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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