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DBMS > AntDB vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. STSdb

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.09
Rank#342  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlbigobject.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedBigObject, Inc.MicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release201520102011
Current releaseV124.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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