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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. AntDB vs. Axibase vs. Kdb vs. Realm

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHigh performance Time Series DBMSA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financekx.comrealm.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscode.kx.comrealm.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAltibaseAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedAxibase CorporationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release199920132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155853.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Javaq
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL2016 compliantSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesuser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesyesyesyes infowith viewsyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsyes
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AltibaseAntDBAxibaseKdbRealm
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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