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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Ignite vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

ignite.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

pouchdb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Mireo

Initial release

1979

2015

2021

2012

2020

Current release

V12, November 2020

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++, Java, .Net

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

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

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

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

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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