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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OrientDB vs. searchxml

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignite.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchorientdb.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software FoundationMicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20062015201520102015
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6V13.2.29, March 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++, Java, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noJava, Javascriptyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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