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System Properties Comparison Apache Ignite vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase

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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.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.99
Rank	#86	Overall
	#12	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#241	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#362	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

sql.js.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2012

1987

Current release

2.16.0, December 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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