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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. CrateDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLDistributed Database based on LuceneA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.bigchaindb.combrytlyt.iocratedb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.brytlyt.iocratedb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedBrytlytCrate
Initial release2016201620132009
Current release5.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languagePythonC, C++ and CUDAJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantnoyesyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLuser defined functions (Javascript)no
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsno
More information provided by the system vendor
AntDBBigchainDBBrytlytCrateDBTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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