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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine vs. TiDB

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime 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 modelObject oriented DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
pingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2017200120192016
Current release3.5.1, February 20233.0, August 20228.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++CGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIProprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
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 proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
ObjectBoxSphinxTDengineTiDB
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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