DBMS > LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sqrrl vs. TempoIQ vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sqrrl vs. TempoIQ vs. TiDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

TiDB 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 model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.leanxcale.com

www.postgres-xl.org

sqrrl.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

LeanXcale

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

TempoIQ

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

2016

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

8.0.0, March 2024

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

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

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

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

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

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

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

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

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

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

simple authentication-based access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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