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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. TiDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platformTiDB 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 modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.marklogic.comwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
pingcap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.marklogic.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperGoogleMarkLogic Corp.Snowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20142001201420192016
Current release2.1.12, February 201711.0, December 20223.0, August 20228.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CGo, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL92yesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
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 proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
TriggersUsing read-only observersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByes, with Range Indexesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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LovefieldMarkLogicSnowflakeTDengineTiDB
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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