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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. TiDB vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSTiDB 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.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespingcap.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationPingCAP, Inc.Transaction Software GmbHJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201619872019
Current release11.2, May 20228.0.0, March 2024Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCGo, RustC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioning (by key range)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infowith TiSpark Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infofull support since version 6.6yesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IngresTiDBTransbaseXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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