DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SingleStore vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SingleStore vs. TiDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeTiDB 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 modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.63
Rank#232  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.singlestore.compingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.keydb.devdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.singlestore.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.MicrosoftSingleStore Inc.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2019201620132016
Current release8.5, January 20248.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.
Implementation languageC++C++C++, GoGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyesyes
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 infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
Bash
C
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 proceduresLuaTransact SQLyesno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infohash partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access control and ACLyesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
KeyDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
» more
Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
» more
Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
» more
Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
» more
Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
KeyDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTiDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Turbocharge Your Application Development Using WebAssembly With SingleStoreDB
17 October 2022,  Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor) 

Cloud-Based Analytics With SingleStoreDB
9 June 2022,  Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor) 

SingleStore: The Increasing Momentum of Multi-Model Database Systems
14 February 2022,  Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

Snap snaps up database developer KeyDB to make its infrastructure more snappy
12 May 2022, TechCrunch

Introducing Garnet – an open-source, next-generation, faster cache-store for accelerating applications and services
18 March 2024, Microsoft

Microsoft open-sources unique “Garnet” cache-store; a Redis rival?
19 March 2024, The Stack

Dragonfly 0.13 Database Adds Experimental SSD-Based Data Tiering, More SIMD Work
2 January 2023, Phoronix

Beyond the mainstream database offerings
26 March 2020, TechCentral.ie

provided by Google News

General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA
8 April 2024, Microsoft

Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support
22 March 2024, Microsoft

Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024
26 March 2024, eWeek

Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto
27 May 2024, Microsoft

Announcing the retirement of SQL Server Stretch Database
3 July 2024, Microsoft

provided by Google News

SingleStore Partners With Snowflake to Help Users Build Faster, More Efficient Real Time AI Applications
19 September 2024, businesswire.com

SingleStore CEO sees little future for purpose-built vector databases
24 January 2024, VentureBeat

Achieve near real-time analytics on Amazon DynamoDB with SingleStore
16 September 2024, AWS Blog

Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond
18 April 2024, Madrona Venture Group

SingleStore: We do vectors and you don’t need knowledge graphs
22 July 2024, Blocks & Files

provided by Google News

How a new database architecture supports scale and reliability in TiDB
11 March 2024, InfoWorld

Unlocking performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of Zomato’s Billing Platform by switching from TiDB to DynamoDB
22 December 2023, AWS Blog

TiDB Can Do What MongoDB or CockRoachDB Can’t
27 June 2024, AIM

Google Cloud's C3D Instances Provide Strong Performance Value For PingCAP's TiDB
28 March 2024, Phoronix

How PingCAP transformed TiDB into a serverless DBaaS using Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS
14 November 2023, AWS Blog

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here