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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

TiDB is an open source distributed Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that supports MySQL and Spark SQL syntaxes.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.51
Rank	#165	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	4.41
Rank	#90	Overall
	#16	Document stores

Score	3.44
Rank	#102	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase8a.com

www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2016

Current release

GBase 8a

6.5.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
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

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

currently only supported in syntax

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept. No user groups or roles.

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Specific characteristics

TiDB is an open-source NewSQL database built by PingCAP. TiDB supports Hybrid Transactional...
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Competitive advantages

In the current database landscape, infrastructure engineers often have to use one...
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Typical application scenarios

TiDB is designed to support both OLTP and OLAP scenarios. You can use TiDB , the...
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Key customers

Shopee (E-commerce) BookMyShow.com (E-commerce) Yiguo.com (E-commerce) JD Cloud &...
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Market metrics

25K+ GitHub Stars for TiDB, and 8K+ GitHub Stars for TiKV 1.6K+ members in TiDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source Apache 2.0 with either commercial licensing or fully-hosted DB-as-a-service...
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