DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. SQLite vs. TDengine vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. SQLite vs. TDengine vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

TiDB 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 model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gridgain.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2007

2000

2019

2016

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

3.0, August 2022

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

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

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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