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System Properties Comparison Raima Database Manager vs. STSdb vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#288	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#361	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	3.50
Rank	#73	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

raima.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

docs.raima.com

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Raima Inc.

STS Soft SC

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2011

2016

Current release

15, June 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

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

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

RaimaDB and QNX Forge a Powerful Partnership in Embedded Systems
9 July 2024

Raima Unveils RaimaDB 16.0: Elevating Database Performance and User Experience
29 February 2024

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v15, a Powerful Embedded Time Series Database
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

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Recent citations in the news

Raima re-bundles their Raima Database Manager packages to align with market trends
14 March 2012, embedded.com

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PingCAP Unveils Major TiDB Enhancements to Power Global Scale and AI-Driven Applications
22 April 2025, GlobeNewswire

PingCAP Unveils Major TiDB Enhancements to Power Global Scale and AI-Driven Applications
22 April 2025, Yahoo Finance

Build a data lakehouse in a hybrid Environment using Amazon EMR Serverless, Apache DolphinScheduler, and TiDB
20 March 2025, Amazon Web Services

How TiDB is solving enterprise data challenges with scalability and speed
21 March 2025, YourStory.com

“TiDB supports scaling to millions of queries per second”
2 April 2025, Open Source For You

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