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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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 high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

ignite.apache.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2009

2015

2020

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes (replicated cache)

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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