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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.
Initial release20152002201720132023
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.64.0V0.10.20, January 20181.2.2, November 20181.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesVector, Numeric and String
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes, in Luanono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)noneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnonosimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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