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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. TiDB vs. Trino vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.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.Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbpingcap.comtrino.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabletrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperFoundationDBPingCAP, Inc.Trino Software FoundationRocket Software
Initial release201320162012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL1985
Current release6.2.28, November 20208.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.
Implementation languageC++Go, RustJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesoptional
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyes, depending on connected data-sourceyes
Triggersnononoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)depending on connected data-sourcenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.depending on connected data-sourceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infowith TiSpark Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes infofull support since version 6.6nono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDdepending on connected data-sourceACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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FoundationDBTiDBTrinoUniData,UniVerse
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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