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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlopentsdb.netquestdb.iordf4j.org
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsQuestDB Technology IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release201120142004
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantnoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnono
More information provided by the system vendor
AntDBOpenTSDBQuestDBRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
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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