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System Properties Comparison SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.59
Rank	#92	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#237	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

intl.cloud.tencent.com/product/dcdb

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

intl.cloud.tencent.com/product/dcdb#m_developer

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Sybase, SAP

Tencent

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

1993

2013

2016

Current release

5.0.1, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

currently only supported in syntax

Transaction concepts

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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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