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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. MySQL vs. Solr

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Widely used open source RDBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

dev.mysql.com/doc

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2018

2015

2002

1995

2006

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

4.0

8.3.0, January 2024

9.5.0, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

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

yes

proprietary syntax

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes (replicated cache)

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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