Introduction to NineData Community Edition

This page explains what NineData Community Edition is, who it is designed for, which core capabilities it includes, and how it differs from enterprise deployment options.

What is NineData Community Edition?

NineData Community Edition (GitHub) is a permanently free, one-click installation data management solution for developers, startup teams, educational institutions, and individual users. It includes core NineData capabilities such as Database DevOps, Data Replication, Database Comparison, AI AGENT, and Operations Center.

• Database DevOps: Manage data sources, query data, enforce SQL standards, review SQL changes, and run approval workflows for database development.

• Data Replication: Replicate data offline or in real time between homogeneous and heterogeneous data sources. Use it for data migration, database scaling, version upgrades, disaster recovery, multi-active architecture, and warehouse or lake integration.

• Database Comparison: The NineData Database Comparison feature supports consistency comparison between two data sources. When inconsistencies are found, it can generate change SQL to help align data and structure.

• AI AGENT: Use ChatDBA, intelligent SQL diagnosis, SQL optimization, and migration assessment for database Q&A, performance diagnosis, SQL rewriting, and migration risk assessment.

• Operations Center: Manage tasks, view logs, monitor cluster and node resources, and manage Pods in local deployment environments.

NineData Community Edition runs as a local deployment and does not require a connection to cloud services or the NineData website. All data and operations stay in your local environment. It is suitable for isolated internal networks, small teams, individual projects, and learning or testing scenarios.

NineData Community Edition is Docker-based and can be installed with a single command on a local machine or server.

Why use Community Edition

Permanently Free, Efficient, and Easy to Use

Community Edition is free to use and can be deployed quickly.

Support for Cloud Virtual Machines or Local Deployment

Deploy it on a cloud virtual machine or in a local private network to meet internal data management requirements.

Safer and More Efficient Data Management

Use database DevOps capabilities to improve collaboration between developers and DBAs while keeping data operations controlled.

High-Performance Real-Time Data Migration and Synchronization

Use CDC-based replication for migration, synchronization, disaster recovery, and other real-time data movement scenarios.

Community Edition vs Enterprise Edition (formerly NineData Dedicated Cluster)

Comparison Dimension	Community Edition	Enterprise Edition
Core Positioning	Developers/Startup Teams/Individual Developers	Medium and Large Enterprises/Production Environment
Deployment Method	Docker Single Machine Deployment	Docker Single Machine Deployment/Distributed Cluster
Database DevOps	10 data sources (functions consistent with the professional version)	Scales dynamically based on the license (unlimited)
Data Replication	10 tasks (including 2 incremental tasks)	Scales dynamically based on the license (unlimited)
Data Comparison	Up to 10 tasks	No limit
Deployment Complexity	Low: single command deployment	Higher: supports scaling, node expansion, and distributed operations
Resource Consumption	Single machine	Cluster (cross-room disaster recovery + multi-active in different locations)
Technical Support	Documents + WeChat group	7x24 dedicated technical support + SLA service guarantee
Cost	Permanently free	Pay as you go

Comprehensive Comparison of NineData Community Edition with Mainstream Tools

Database DevOps

Comparison Items		NineData Community Edition	Navicat	Flyway	Liquibase	DataGrip (Non-Commercial License)
Basic Capabilities	Update and Iteration Frequency	High (Continuous delivery, weekly iteration)	Medium (Annual major versions, quarterly minor updates)	Medium (Regular feature enhancements, about once every six months)	Medium (Regular maintenance, quarterly updates)	Medium (two major updates per year)
	Deployment Mode	Docker Deployment	Desktop Application	CLI Integrated with Java	CLI Integrated with Java	Desktop IDE (Windows/macOS/Linux)
	Supported Data Sources	Nearly 40 types of data sources, including RDBMS, data warehouses, and multi-cloud databases. For details, see Feature Overview.	MySQL, PG, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.	MySQL, PG, Oracle, and other mainstream databases	Mainstream databases (similar to Flyway)	Full support for mainstream databases; basic support for other databases through JDBC drivers
	Login Method	Account password/third-party login/SSO(LDAP)	Local account/License	No (Command line)	No (Command line/Code)	JetBrains account + database authentication (no platform-level SSO)
SQL IDE	Supported Languages	Chinese and English	Multiple languages	English	English	English, with Chinese/Japanese/Korean language packs
	SQL Window	Supported (Strong)	Supported (Strong)	X	X	Supported (SQL IDE and multiple query consoles)
	Object Visual Management	Supported	Supported (Graphical)	X	X	Supported (object browsing/creation/modification and database diagrams)
	Query Result Set Operations	Export, Edit	Export, Edit, Charts	X	X	Supported (view, edit, search, compare, import, and multi-format export)
	Session Isolation	Supported	Supported	X	X	Supported (dedicated sessions)
SQL Review and Release	SQL Change Release	Work Order + Automated Process	Direct Execution	Direct Execution of Migration Scripts	Direct Execution of Scripts	Direct execution (no approval work orders)
	Change Automatic Backup	Supported	Manual Backup	X	X	X
	Approval Process	Multi-level approval, can be connected to external approval processes	X	X	X	X
	Online DDL	Natively Supported	X	X	X	X
	Online DML	Supported	X	X	X	X
	Built-in SQL Standards	200+ built-in rules for various database types / custom	X	X	X	Partially supported (local SQL inspections; no organization-wide policy)
	Mobile Approval	Supported	X	X	X	X
	Release Process Orchestration	Supported	X	X	X	X
	SQL Code Review	Strong (Automated Review)	X	X	X	Partially supported (local code inspections; no team review workflow)
Data Security	Sensitive Data Protection	Intelligent data classification and grading, complete data desensitization + encryption	X	X	X	X
	Permission Authorization Mode	RBAC + ABAC, administrator authorization + active application	X	X	X	X
	Permission Model	Fine-grained permissions (database/table/sensitive column/module/operation)	Local permissions	X	X	X
	Operation Audit	Full-link audit	X	X	X	X
Advanced Data Processing	Data Import	Multi-format import, syntax-level controllable	Multiple formats (Excel, CSV, etc.)	Through migration scripts	Through scripts	Supported (CSV/TSV/delimited-text import)
	Data Export	Multi-format export, file encryption, watermark protection	Multiple formats export	X	X	Supported (CSV/JSON/XML/HTML/Markdown/Excel and other formats)
	Data Archiving and Cleaning	Automatic archiving (MySQL, PG)	Manual	X	X	X
	Data Tracking and Rollback	Automatic parsing of Binlog to generate in reverse	X	X	X	X
	Data Generation	Supported, simulation template customization	Support for test data generation	X	X	X
Performance Diagnosis	Slow SQL Performance Analysis	In-depth analysis + optimization suggestions (MySQL, PG, Oracle, Db2)	Basic analysis	X	X	Partially supported (Explain Plan/Analyse; no slow-SQL monitoring)
	Session Management	View/Kill sessions	View/Kill sessions	X	X	Supported (view/close sessions and cancel statements)

Data Replication

Comparison Items		NineData	Flink CDC 3.0	AWS DMS	Debezium
Basic Capabilities	Product Positioning	Enterprise end-to-end real-time replication platform	Open-source CDC and data integration component	AWS managed database migration service	Open-source CDC connector platform built around Kafka Connect
	License	Free Community Edition; commercial Enterprise Edition	Apache 2.0	Commercial proprietary service	Apache 2.0
	Types of Supported Data Sources	100+	10+	26+	13+
	Visual Data Source Configuration Management	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported
	User Management	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported
	Permission Management	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Not supported
Core Functions	Table Structure Migration	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Non-table Object Migration	Supported	Not supported	Partially supported	Not supported
	Full Data Migration	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Incremental Data Synchronization (DML)	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Incremental Structure Synchronization (DDL)	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Partially supported; limited to selected table-related DDL
	Data Filtering	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Supported
	Object Name Mapping	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Data Transformation Processing	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Supported
	Structure Comparison	Supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
	Full Data Comparison	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported
	Incremental Data Comparison	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported
	Modify Synchronization Objects	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Supported
	Visual Task Configuration and Management	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported
Task Management	Task High Availability and Automatic Disaster Recovery (task level, server level)	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Supported
	Task Pause and Resume	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Task Throttling	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Supported
	Monitoring and Alerts	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Not supported
	Metrics Monitoring	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Supported through JMX
	Data SQL Query Window	Supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
	API	Supported	Partially supported	Supported	Partially supported
Delivery and Support	Deployment Model	Community Edition on Docker; Enterprise Edition on Docker; cloud service	Flink CLI, standalone, or Kubernetes	AWS managed cloud service	Kafka Connect, Debezium Server, or Kubernetes
	Technical Support	NineData vendor support	Community support	AWS support	Community and ecosystem support

NineData Community Edition Data Replication

The following data replication and comparison paths are currently supported.

Source Data Source	Target Data Source
MySQL	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	SQL Server
	TiDB
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	openGauss PostgreSQL
	GaussDB B-compatible
	DWS
	ClickHouse
	ADB PostgreSQL
	Greenplum
	Redshift
	Doris
	SelectDB
	StarRocks
	SingleStore
	Db2
	Elasticsearch
	Kafka
	Hive
	ShardingJDBC
	DataHub
	PolarDB-X
	OceanBase Oracle
	Dameng
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
Oracle	Oracle
	MySQL
	PostgreSQL
	TiDB
	Dameng
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	openGauss PostgreSQL
	GaussDB B-compatible
	DWS
	ClickHouse
	ADB PostgreSQL
	OceanBase Oracle
	Greenplum
	Doris
	SelectDB
	StarRocks
	SingleStore
	Kafka
	Hive
	DataHub
	PolarDB Oracle
	OceanBase MySQL
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
	GoldenDB
PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL
	MySQL
	Oracle
	SQL Server
	TiDB
	openGauss PostgreSQL
	GaussDB B-compatible
	DWS
	ClickHouse
	ADB PostgreSQL
	Greenplum
	Doris
	SelectDB
	StarRocks
	SingleStore
	Sybase
	Kafka
	Hive
	OceanBase MySQL
	OceanBase Oracle
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for Oracle
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
SQL Server	SQL Server
	MySQL
	PostgreSQL
	Doris
	SelectDB
	StarRocks
	Kafka
	Azure SQL Database
	TiDB
	OceanBase MySQL
	OceanBase Oracle
	GaussDB MySQL
	GaussDB Oracle
	GaussDB PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for Oracle
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
	Greenplum
	ADB PostgreSQL
	DWS
	TDSQL MySQL
TDSQL MySQL	MySQL
	Doris
	Kafka
TDSQL PostgreSQL	Oracle
	TDSQL PostgreSQL
	PostgreSQL
	Doris
	ClickHouse
TiDB	TiDB
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	ClickHouse
	ADB PostgreSQL
	Greenplum
	Hive
	PolarDB-X 2.0 Distributed
	SQL Server
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for Oracle
	Dameng
Dameng	Dameng
	MySQL
	Oracle
	SQL Server
	TiDB
	OceanBase Oracle
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for Oracle
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
KingbaseES for PostgreSQL	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	Doris
	SQL Server
	TiDB
	OceanBase MySQL
	OceanBase Oracle
	openGauss Oracle
	Dameng
	StarRocks
	SelectDB
	Greenplum
	ClickHouse
openGauss PostgreSQL	openGauss PostgreSQL
	GaussDB B-compatible
	StarRocks
	DataHub
	Dameng
GaussDB B-compatible	GaussDB B-compatible
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	openGauss PostgreSQL
	DWS
	Doris
	SelectDB
	StarRocks
	DataHub
DWS	DWS
	GaussDB B-compatible
	StarRocks
	DataHub
ClickHouse	ClickHouse
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	Greenplum
	Doris
	SelectDB
	StarRocks
	TiDB
	OceanBase MySQL
	OceanBase Oracle
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for Oracle
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
ADB PostgreSQL	ADB PostgreSQL
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	TiDB
OceanBase MySQL	OceanBase MySQL
	MySQL
	StarRocks
	Kafka
	DataHub
	PolarDB-X 2.0 Distributed
	PostgreSQL
	openGauss Oracle
	openGauss PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for Oracle
	Dameng
	TDSQL-C MySQL
	PolarDB PostgreSQL
	PolarDB Oracle
	Greenplum
	ClickHouse
OceanBase Oracle	OceanBase Oracle
	StarRocks
	Kafka
	DataHub
	Oracle
	TiDB
	OceanBase MySQL
	PolarDB PostgreSQL
Greenplum	Greenplum
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	TiDB
	ClickHouse
	Doris
	SelectDB
	StarRocks
	SingleStore
	Hive
	SQL Server
	OceanBase MySQL
	OceanBase Oracle
	Dameng
SelectDB	SelectDB
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	ClickHouse
	Greenplum
	Doris
	StarRocks
	SingleStore
StarRocks	StarRocks
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	ClickHouse
	Greenplum
	Doris
	SelectDB
	SingleStore
	TiDB
	OceanBase MySQL
	OceanBase Oracle
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for Oracle
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
SingleStore	SingleStore
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	ClickHouse
	Greenplum
	Doris
	SelectDB
	StarRocks
Redis	Redis
MongoDB	MongoDB
Kafka	Kafka
	MySQL
	ClickHouse
Hive	Hive
	MySQL
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
	TiDB
	Greenplum
ShardingJDBC	ShardingJDBC
	MySQL
PolarDB PostgreSQL	OceanBase MySQL
	OceanBase Oracle
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for Oracle
	TDSQL MySQL
	TDSQL PostgreSQL
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
	ClickHouse
PolarDB Oracle	PolarDB Oracle
	Oracle
	PostgreSQL
Azure SQL Database	Azure SQL Database
	PostgreSQL
	SQL Server
PolarDB-X	PolarDB-X
Vastbase G100	Vastbase G100
GoldenDB	Oracle
KingbaseES for Oracle	TiDB
	Dameng
	StarRocks
	SelectDB
	ClickHouse
openGauss MySQL	openGauss Oracle
	Dameng
	ClickHouse
openGauss Oracle	Dameng
	StarRocks
	ClickHouse
TDSQL-C MySQL	OceanBase Oracle
	Dameng
	TDSQL PostgreSQL
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
Doris	TiDB
	OceanBase MySQL
	OceanBase Oracle
	KingbaseES for PostgreSQL
	KingbaseES for Oracle
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG
	Doris
PolarDB MySQL	Dameng
	TDSQL PostgreSQL
	PolarDB Oracle
	Vastbase G100 Oracle
	Vastbase G100 PG

More replication and migration pipelines are continuously being planned…

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: Why can't I choose the desired data source when creating a replication task?
  • Reason: The Community Edition exposes replication routes listed in this section and available on the create replication task page. Routes that do not appear in the list are not yet available and will be opened gradually in later releases.