DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

ignite.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2008

2015

2014

2020

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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 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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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