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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Quasardb vs. TempoIQ vs. TiDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)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 modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.ioquasar.aitempoiq.com (offline)pingcap.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftquasardbTempoIQPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20132010200920122016
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.14.1, January 20248.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
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 proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesnonono
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynononoyes 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 datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple authentication-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FoundationDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityQuasardbTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBTiDB
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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