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DBMS > AntDB vs. BigObject vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BigObject vs. TypeDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 queriesTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score0.28
Rank#301  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#99  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlbigobject.iotypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iotypedb.com/­docs
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DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedBigObject, Inc.Vaticle
Initial release20152016
Current release2.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AntDBBigObjectTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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