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System Properties Comparison Splice Machine vs. TiDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

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.

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.54
Rank	#242	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#73	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#324	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

splicemachine.com

pingcap.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Splice Machine

PingCAP, Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2016

2019

Current release

3.1, March 2021

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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, via Full Spark Integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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