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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. TiDB vs. XTDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataTiDB 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.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltmachbase.compingcap.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMachbasePingCAP, Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2013201320162019
Current releaseV8.0, August 20238.1.0, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoCGo, RustClojure
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxTiDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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