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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Cassandra vs. GeoSpock vs. Kdb

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlcassandra.apache.orggeospock.comkx.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestcode.kx.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGeoSpockKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20082000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release4.1.3, July 20232.0, September 20193.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, Javascriptq
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutiontemporal, categoricalyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per tablerights management via user accounts
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AntDBCassandraGeoSpockKdb
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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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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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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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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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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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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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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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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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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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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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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