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DBMS > SurrealDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison SurrealDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TiDB

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NameSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA 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 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 modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Score1.12
Rank#172  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score3.58
Rank#73  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitesurrealdb.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbpingcap.com
Technical documentationsurrealdb.com/­docswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042docs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperSurrealDB LtdTencentPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release202220132016
Current releasev1.5.0, May 20248.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageRustGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
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 infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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