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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine vs. Trino

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Name

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#255	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	5.10
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

ignite.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

splicemachine.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

2015

1989

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

15.5, September 2020

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Java

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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