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DBMS > AntDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Heroic

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroic
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSpotify
Initial release201620082014
Current release17034.1.3, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
LDAPProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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AntDBAtos Standard Common RepositoryCassandraHeroic
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Apache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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