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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ignite.apache.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2015

2010

2015

2017

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in JavaScript

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

replication via a shared file system

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Roles, resources, and access types

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