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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. TiDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformTiDB 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 modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
cloud.google.com/­datastorepingcap.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGooglePingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2016202320082016
Current release1.0, March 20238.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes, details hereyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (GQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuausing Google App Engineno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using PaxosUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigchainDBDragonflyGoogle Cloud DatastoreTiDB
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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