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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BaseX vs. Infobright vs. SingleStore vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

basex.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.singlestore.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.singlestore.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

BaseX GmbH

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2007

2005

2013

1998

Current release

11.0, June 2024

8.5, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Licensing and pricing models

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