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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GridDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.geomesa.org

griddb.net

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.griddb.net

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

CCRi and others

Toshiba Corporation

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2014

2013

2016

2010

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

5.1, August 2022

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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