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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

cloud.google.com/bigtable

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2015

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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Specific characteristics

AntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

As the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Market metrics

More than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Licensing and pricing models

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