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System Properties Comparison TiDB vs. XTDB

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NameTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTiDB 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.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.58
Rank#73  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#314  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitepingcap.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperPingCAP, Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20162019
Current release8.2.0, July 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageGo, RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 SQLyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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