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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Memcached vs. Riak KV vs. SQream DB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.memcached.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.sqream.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedInterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSQream Technologies
Initial release1997200320092017
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.6.25, March 20243.2.0, December 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes, ANSI Standard SQL 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
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlanguser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes, using Riak Security
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AntDBInterSystems CachéMemcachedRiak KVSQream DB
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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