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System Properties Comparison Apache Ignite vs. Badger vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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.

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#12	Key-value stores
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#309	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

ignite.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DGraph Labs

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2015

2017

Current release

2.16.0, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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