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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Infobright vs. Realm vs. SurrealDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmldrill.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbrealm.iosurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsrealm.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedApache Software FoundationIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012200520142022
Current release1.20.3, January 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesnonoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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