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DBMS > Riak KV vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB vs. TiDB

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTiDB 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 modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Score4.94
Rank#72  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbpingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhByteDance, originally TerarkPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2009201520162016
Current release3.2.0, December 20221.07.6.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
C++ API
Java API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
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 infoStored proceduresErlangyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecurityDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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