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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlgeospock.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.postgres-xl.orgwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.singlestore.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedGeoSpockGoogleSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release2.0, September 201910 R1, October 20188.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptCC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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AntDBGeoSpockGoogle BigQueryPostgres-XLSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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