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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Drizzle vs. GridDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.28
Rank#301  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlgriddb.net
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.net
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerToshiba Corporation
Initial release20082013
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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AntDBDrizzleGridDB
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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