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DBMS > Citus vs. Manticore Search vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Manticore Search vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTiDB 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 modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.commanticoresearch.comswaydb.simer.aupingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.commanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperManticore SoftwareSimer PlahaPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2010201720182016
Current release8.1, December 20186.0, February 20238.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++ScalaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
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 proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
CitusManticore SearchSwayDBTiDB
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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