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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Ignite vs. LokiJS vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

ignite.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Initial release

2013

2015

2014

Current release

15585

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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