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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. SAP IQ vs. TiDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsTiDB 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.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlpingcap.comwww.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabledocs.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.SAP, formerly SybasePingCAP, Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20201994201620171987
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20198.1.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGo, RustC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
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
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexerhorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSAP/Sybase Replication ServerUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyes infowith TiSpark Connectoryesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FireboltSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTiDBTigerGraphTransbase
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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