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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Ignite vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

ignite.apache.org

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

Initial release

2005

2015

2010

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

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

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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