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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance Time Series DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kx.comwww.kinetica.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedcode.kx.comdocs.kinetica.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcKineticaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release201520172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320122004
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6V0.10.20, January 20183.6, May 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC and C++qC, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luauser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infowith viewsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnorights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno
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IgniteIRONdbKdbKineticaRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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