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System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. Sequoiadb vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

Document store

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Score	1322.93
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#251	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	2.27
Rank	#116	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database

www.sequoiadb.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

1980

2013

2016

Current release

19c, February 2019

4.0.8 , October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
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

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

isolation level can be parameterized

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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

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Specific characteristics

TiDB is an open-source NewSQL database built by PingCAP. TiDB supports Hybrid Transactional...
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Competitive advantages

In the current database landscape, infrastructure engineers often have to use one...
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Typical application scenarios

TiDB is designed to support both OLTP and OLAP scenarios. You can use TiDB , the...
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Key customers

Shopee (E-commerce) BookMyShow.com (E-commerce) Yiguo.com (E-commerce) JD Cloud &...
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Market metrics

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

Open Source Apache 2.0 with either commercial licensing or fully-hosted DB-as-a-service...
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News

Five Principles that Guide TiDB and PingCAP (Part I)
21 January 2021

Announcing the TiDB Incubator Program
20 January 2021

How to Simulate I/O Faults at Runtime
8 January 2021

GitHub Discussions: Bringing the Open Source Community Closer Together and All in GitHub
7 January 2021

PingCAP 2020 Year in Review
31 December 2020

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