DBMS > Citus vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

FairCom Corporation

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2010

1979

2009

2014

2016

Current release

8.1, December 2018

V3, October 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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