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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Ignite vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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 general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

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

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

ignite.apache.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2015

2019

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes, each node contains all data

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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