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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2014

2018

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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

Role-based access control

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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

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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