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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Realm vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb vs. TiDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTiDB 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 modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iorealm.iowww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4pingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualrealm.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sequoiadb Ltd.STS Soft SCPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20102014201320112016
Current release4.0.8, September 20158.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C#Go, Rust
Server operating systems.NETAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON.NET Client APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
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 proceduresyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryJavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple password-based access controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityRealmSequoiadbSTSdbTiDB
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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