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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ignite vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

ignite.apache.org

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Splice Machine

Initial release

1984

2015

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

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