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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used in-process key-value store

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

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Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

InterSystems

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2018

1994

1998

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

AntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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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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