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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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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	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

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

ignite.apache.org

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

siridb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

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

docs.siridb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Cesbit

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2015

1989

2017

2018

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

MIT License

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

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

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

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

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

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

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

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)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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