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DBMS > Heroic vs. SpaceTime vs. TiDB vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. SpaceTime vs. TiDB vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.TiDB 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.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.mireo.com/­spacetimepingcap.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titangithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyMireoPingCAP, Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax8Kdata
Initial release20142020201620122016
Current release8.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go, RustJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyesno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioning (by key range)yes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connectoryes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and roles
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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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