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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenQM vs. TypeDB

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 simplicityA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column storeMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmtypedb.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.MicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsVaticle
Initial release20152017201219932016
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6V0.10.20, January 20183.4-122.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
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
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luanoyesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingACIDACID
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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