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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Ignite vs. TigerGraph vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Ignite vs. TigerGraph vs. XTDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.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 complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.exasol.comignite.apache.orgwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.tigergraph.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperExasolApache Software FoundationJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2000201520172019
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.61.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (GSQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access control

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