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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. GigaSpaces vs. Graphite vs. TiDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationIn-memory caching systemHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTiDB 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 modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financecachelot.iowww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webpingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGigaspaces TechnologiesChris DavisPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20132015200020062016
Current release1558515.5, September 20208.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, C++, .NetPythonGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Sockets
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
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 proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
noneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AxibaseCachelot.ioGigaSpacesGraphiteTiDB
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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