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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

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.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#312	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	5.14
Rank	#83	Overall
	#10	Key-value stores
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/58764.htm

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

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

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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