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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. Solr

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleHigh performance Time Series DBMSMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlkx.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssolr.apache.org
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200319922006
Current release3.6, May 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageqC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantSQL-like query language (q)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava plugins
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes
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AntDBKdbMicrosoft AccessSolr
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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