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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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