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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TerarkDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

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

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

ignite.apache.org

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

ByteDance, originally Terark

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2015

1989

2016

2018

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

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

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C++
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

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

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

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

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Journaling Streams

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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