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DBMS > AntDB vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteCloud-based data warehousing serviceRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedGridGain Systems, Inc.IBMSAP infoformerly SybaseTimescale
Initial release2007201419922017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.117, July 20152.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL, SQL PLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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