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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. CrateDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. InfinityDB vs. LeanXcale

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleDistributed Database based on LuceneHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlcratedb.comwww.gigaspaces.comboilerbay.comwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedCrateGigaspaces TechnologiesBoiler Bay Inc.LeanXcale
Initial release2013200020022015
Current release15.5, September 20204.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
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 languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languages.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
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaC
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yesno
Triggersyesnoyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsRole-based access controlno
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AntDBCrateDBGigaSpacesInfinityDBLeanXcale
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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