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DBMS > NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. TiDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. TiDB vs. TimesTen

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NameNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseTiDB 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.An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitensdb.ioopentsdb.netpingcap.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationnsdb.io/­Architectureopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabledocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPingCAP, Inc.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2017201120161998
Current release8.2.0, July 2024Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
LinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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 indexesall fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoPL/SQL
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by key range)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6yes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
NSDbOpenTSDBTiDBTimesTen
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB 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 metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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