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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverTiDB 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 modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.00
Rank#56  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#403  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score3.53
Rank#105  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productspingcap.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcinformationpartners gmbhPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320152016
Current release3.6, May 20181.07.0.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageqC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsAda
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 proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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KdbsearchxmlTiDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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TiDB is an open-source NewSQL database built by PingCAP. TiDB supports Hybrid Transactional...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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In the current database landscape, infrastructure engineers often have to use one...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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TiDB is designed to support both OLTP and OLAP scenarios. You can use TiDB , the...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Shopee (E-commerce) BookMyShow.com (E-commerce) Yiguo.com (E-commerce) JD Cloud &...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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25K+ GitHub Stars for TiDB, and 8K+ GitHub Stars for TiKV 1.6K+ members in TiDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Open Source Apache 2.0 with either commercial licensing or fully-hosted DB-as-a-service...
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