DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

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

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.scylladb.com

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

ScyllaDB

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2013

2015

2016

Current release

6.0, February 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, 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

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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