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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Cassandra vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.xtdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2019

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

AntDB 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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Competitive advantages

HTAP 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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Typical application scenarios

As 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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Key customers

China 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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Market metrics

More 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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Licensing and pricing models

Certificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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