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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

google.github.io/lovefield

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Event Store Limited

Google

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2009

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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

HTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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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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