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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. QuestDB vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB

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NameOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTiDB 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 modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquestdb.iowww.snowflake.compingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperOracleQuestDB Technology IncSnowflake Computing Inc.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2011201420142016
Current release24.1, May 20248.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript (Node.js)
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 infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yeshorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID for single-table writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheyes infothrough memory mapped filesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Oracle NoSQLQuestDBSnowflakeTiDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Block, 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 modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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