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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Dgraph vs. STSdb vs. TiDB vs. Trafodion

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTiDB 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.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.30
Rank#287  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
dgraph.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4pingcap.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comdgraph.io/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabletrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDatabend LabsDgraph Labs, Inc.STS Soft SCPingCAP, Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20212016201120162014
Current release1.0.59, April 20234.0.8, September 20158.1.0, May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustGoC#Go, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.NET Client APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connectoryes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infofull support since version 6.6yes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
DatabendDgraphSTSdbTiDBTrafodion
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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