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System Properties Comparison Apache Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB

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Name

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.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.94
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

origodb.com

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2015

2016

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

2.16.0, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Source-replica replication

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

yes

Role based authorization

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