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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Drizzle vs. Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB

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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.

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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.scylladb.com

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2008

2009

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.2.0, December 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

HTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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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

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