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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Percona

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2001

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

AntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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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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