DBMS > Ignite vs. Infobright vs. Oracle vs. OrientDB vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Infobright vs. Oracle vs. OrientDB vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Widely used RDBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

ignite.apache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.oracle.com/database

orientdb.org

realm.io

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

realm.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2015

2005

1980

2010

2014

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

23c, September 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java, Javascript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Hooks

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

can be realized in PL/SQL

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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