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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. XTDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

ignite.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

FatCloud

Hypertable Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2009

2015

2019

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

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++

C++, Java, .Net

Clojure

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

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

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

C++ API
Thrift

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

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

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes (replicated cache)

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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