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

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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 simplicityMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeCloud-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 DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.singlestore.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.SingleStore Inc.
Initial release20152002201720132023
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.64.0V0.10.20, January 20188.5, January 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJavaC and C++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
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 capabilitynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno
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 APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
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
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes, in Luayesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)noneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 loadsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnonoFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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