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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. EJDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.hawkular.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Softmotions

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

1994

Current release

V12

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

in-process shared library

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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