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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Boiler Bay Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2015

2002

2013

2014

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

4.0

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java, .Net

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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