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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GBase vs. TiDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.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 modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnpingcap.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.PingCAP, Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2015200420162011
Current release1.0.0, September 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c8.1.0, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonGo, RustC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#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 infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
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Apache PinotGBaseTiDBVelocityDB
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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