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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. OushuDB vs. TiDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningTiDB 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 modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.netwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBpingcap.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOushuPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release201020112016
Current release4.0.1, August 20208.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
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 proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyeshorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoHadoop integrationyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoKerberos, SSL and role based accessFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IBM CloudantOpenTSDBOushuDBTiDB
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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