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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Quasardb vs. TiDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTiDB 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.Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webquasar.aipingcap.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperChris DavisquasardbPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2006200920162023
Current release3.14.1, January 20248.0.0, March 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++Go, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesnoyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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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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