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DBMS > Stardog vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Stardog vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB vs. Vitess

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NameStardog  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTiDB 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.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.stardog.comswaydb.simer.aupingcap.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.stardog.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablevitess.io/­docs
DeveloperStardog-UnionSimer PlahaPingCAP, Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2010201820162013
Current release7.3.0, May 20208.1.0, May 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaGo, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Servernoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
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 proceduresuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infovia event handlersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in HA-ClusternoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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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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