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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Ignite vs. Ingres vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Well established RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financeignite.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationApache Software FoundationActian CorporationRockset
Initial release2014201320151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2019
Current release15585Apache Ignite 2.611.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++, Java, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonoyesno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
Triggersyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)Ingres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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