DBMS > Kingbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

TiDB is an open source distributed Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that supports MySQL and Spark SQL syntaxes.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.37
Rank	#265	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#216	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	54.96
Rank	#21	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

bbs.kingbase.com.cn/chess_wenku-index.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

SAP

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

2016

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS05 (June 26, 2020), June 2020

5.4.2, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

currently only supported in syntax

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept. No user groups or roles.

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Complete database management platform with Integrated Development Environment Tool,...
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Typical application scenarios

New applications for transactional and mixed workloads that need to integrate with...
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Key customers

The main customers are: China National Petroleum Corporation China Petrochemical...
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Market metrics

At present, the main market is in China, but expansion to the international market...
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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 models

Business license. Various sales modes: for example, sales by set, sales by CPU quantity,...
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Open Source Apache 2.0 with either commercial licensing or fully-hosted DB-as-a-service...
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