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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. SingleStore vs. Sphinx vs. TiDB vs. XTDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTiDB 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 general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.singlestore.comsphinxsearch.compingcap.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.singlestore.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SingleStore Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.PingCAP, Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20022013200120162019
Current release1.1, February 20178.5, January 20243.5.1, February 20238.1.0, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC++Go, RustClojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux info64 bit version requiredFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Proprietary protocolGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnonono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infohash partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by key range)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GeodeSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSphinxTiDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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