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System Properties Comparison Raima Database Manager vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Teradata vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

TiDB 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 model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

raima.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.teradata.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

docs.raima.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.teradata.com

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Raima Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Teradata

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2009

2011

1984

2016

Current release

15, June 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

hosted
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Hashing

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source 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

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantages

Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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News

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29 February 2024

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10 June 2021

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v14.2, a Powerful IoT Edge Embedded Database
8 October 2020

Raima Joins BlackBerry QNX Channel Partner Program to Deliver Safety-Critical and Secure Software Solutions
1 October 2020

Raima Expands Their Reseller Network in Asia
19 May 2020

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