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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. GridDB vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.gigaspaces.comgriddb.netwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.griddb.netdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedGigaspaces TechnologiesToshiba CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release200020131992
Current release15.5, September 20205.1, August 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at container levelACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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AntDBGigaSpacesGridDBMicrosoft Access
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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