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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Ignite vs. OpenSearch vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

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.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

ignite.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon Web Services

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2015

2021

2016

Current release

15585

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 2023

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 Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

SQL-like query language

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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