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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. mSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sphinx

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
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 interfacemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteignite.apache.orgboilerbay.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.Hughes TechnologiesSAP, SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152002199419872001
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.64.04.4, October 202116.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJavaCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
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)
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)nonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
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 SERIALIZEDnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
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 datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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