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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM vs. TiDB vs. Vitess

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value 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.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.kinetica.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmpingcap.comvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.kinetica.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablevitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsKineticaRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsPingCAP, Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20122012199320162013
Current release7.1, August 20213.4-128.1.0, May 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++Go, RustGo
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
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 proceduresnouser defined functionsyesnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyeshorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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EJDBKineticaOpenQM infoalso called QMTiDBVitess
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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