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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. Sphinx vs. TiDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTiDB 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 DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsphinxsearch.compingcap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperRackspaceGigaspaces TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20132000201420012016
Current release15.5, September 20203.5.1, February 20238.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaScriptC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript APIProprietary protocolGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
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 proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
nonenoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate 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 datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnonoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BluefloodGigaSpacesLokiJSSphinxTiDB
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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