DBMS > AntDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Score	0.28
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Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.tigergraph.com

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2017

2014

2016

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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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

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