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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2019

1992

2000

2017

Current release

3.0, March 2022

17, July 2015

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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