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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ClickHouse vs. GreptimeDB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

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 model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.greptime.com

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Clickhouse Inc.

Greptime Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2016

2022

2016

Current release

10.7, August 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.
Aiven for Clickhouse: Managed cloud data warehousing with high-speed analytics.
ClickHouse Cloud: Get the performance you love from open source ClickHouse in a serverless offering that takes care of the details so you can spend more time getting insight out of the fastest database on earth.

TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

Stored procedures

yes

Python

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Simple rights management via user accounts

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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