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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TiDB vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesTiDB 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.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.83
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score5.14
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#143  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netpingcap.comwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabledocs.tigergraph.com
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradataPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20112005201620172009
Current release7.6.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGo, RustC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoin Aster File Storenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoR packagesnoyesno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes infowith TiSpark Connectoryesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno
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OpenTSDBTeradata AsterTiDBTigerGraphTinkerGraph
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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