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System Properties Comparison TiDB vs. YDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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.

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	3.66
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#267	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#324	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

pingcap.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

ydb.tech/en/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

PingCAP, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2019

2023

Current release

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.

Implementation language

Go, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

SQL-like query language (YQL)

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Active-passive shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

yes

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

Access Control Lists

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Specific characteristics

TiDB 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 scenarios

TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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