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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. OpenQM vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.51
Rank	#165	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#257	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.44
Rank	#102	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase8a.com

www.openqm.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.openqm.com/support/documentation

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Martin Phillips

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

1993

2016

Current release

GBase 8a

3.4-12

6.4.0, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

currently only supported in syntax

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 can be defined down to the item level

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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Recent citations in the news

OpenQM
5 March 2019, International Spectrum Magazine

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PingCAP Announces TiDB Cloud Serverless Tier, Delivering ...
1 November 2022, GlobeNewswire

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20 October 2022, DevOps.com

Data management trends: Convergence and more money
19 January 2023, TechTarget

TiDB Cloud Launches in AWS Marketplace
10 February 2022, Datanami

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6 December 2022, GlobeNewswire

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