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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

drill.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1991

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.7

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

AntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Competitive advantages

HTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Typical application scenarios

As the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Market metrics

More than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Licensing and pricing models

Certificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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