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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. EXASOL vs. Kdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.exasol.com

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Exasol

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2011

2010

Current release

3.6, May 2018

23.3, December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

similar paradigm used for internal processing

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

AntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

HTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

As the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

More than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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