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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

ignite.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Mobiland AG

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2015

1989

2018

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Journaling Streams

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

yes

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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