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System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.18
Rank	#292	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	93.51
Rank	#14	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#93	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

www.leanxcale.com

www.snowflake.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

LeanXcale

Snowflake Computing Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2016

Current release

5.0.1, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

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

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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

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Specific characteristics

Full ACID and full SQL operational database with analytical queries over operational...
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TiDB is an open-source NewSQL database built by PingCAP. TiDB supports Hybrid Transactional...
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Competitive advantages

Linear scalability upto 100s of nodes (tested with 100 nodes and TPC-C).
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In the current database landscape, infrastructure engineers often have to use one...
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Typical application scenarios

Hybrid Transactional-Analytical Processing (HTAP) requiring an operational database...
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TiDB is designed to support both OLTP and OLAP scenarios. You can use TiDB , the...
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Key customers

banking/finance/fintech, telco, insurance, traveltech, M2M/IoT, retail
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Shopee (E-commerce) BookMyShow.com (E-commerce) Yiguo.com (E-commerce) JD Cloud &...
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Market metrics

15 beta testers
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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

annual fee covering license and support based on number of physical cores
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Open Source Apache 2.0 with either commercial licensing or fully-hosted DB-as-a-service...
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News

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14 December 2021

Implementing Chaos Engineering in K8s: Chaos Mesh Principle Analysis and Control Plane Development
9 December 2021

TiDB 5.3: Delivering Enhancements for Data Intensive Applications
7 December 2021

Believe in the Multiplicative Power of Openness
30 November 2021

How to Connect TiDB Cloud to Metabase
24 November 2021

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