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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQream DB vs. TiDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmenta GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTiDB 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 DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsqream.compingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingreslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.sqream.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperActian CorporationMicrosoftSQream TechnologiesPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201520172016
Current release11.2, May 2022V12022.1.6, December 20228.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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 proceduresyesnouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneUsing 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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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 controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IngresMicrosoft Azure AI SearchSQream DBTiDB
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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