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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. NuoDB vs. QuestDB vs. Sqrrl

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequestdb.iosqrrl.com
Technical documentationdoc.nuodb.comquestdb.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.QuestDB Technology IncAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release201320142012
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemshosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantyesSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID for single-table writesAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
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AntDBNuoDBQuestDBSqrrl
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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