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DBMS > H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PouchDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PouchDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TiDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesTiDB 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 modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablespouchdb.compingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperThomas MuellerMicrosoftApache Software FoundationTeradataPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20052012201220052016
Current release2.2.220, July 20237.1.1, June 20198.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
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 proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScriptR packagesno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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H2Microsoft Azure Table StoragePouchDBTeradata AsterTiDB
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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