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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. GridGain vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
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Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.voltdb.com

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

2012

2000

2010

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

7.1.1, June 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

View functions in JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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