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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. gStore vs. Infobright vs. Memcached vs. TiDB

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingTiDB 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 modelWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
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Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterpriseen.gstore.cnignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.memcached.orgpingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperDataStaxIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20112016200520032016
Current release6.8, April 20201.2, November 20231.6.27, May 20248.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Datastax Astra DB: Astra DB simplifies cloud-native Cassandra application development for your apps, microservices and functions. Deploy in minutes on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and have it managed for you by the experts, with serverless, pay-as-you-go pricing.TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.
Implementation languageJavaC++CCGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
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 proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Datastax EnterprisegStoreInfobrightMemcachedTiDB
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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