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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kdb vs. TiDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA multi-model DBMS and application serverHigh performance Time Series DBMSTiDB 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachekx.compingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.comcode.kx.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperCognitectChris DavisInterSystemsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2012200619972000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032016
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232018.1.4, May 20203.6, May 20188.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojurePythonqGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
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 proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyesuser defined functionsno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DatomicGraphiteInterSystems CachéKdbTiDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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