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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Informix vs. Linter vs. SiteWhere vs. XTDB

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataRDBMS for high security requirementsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Spatial 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
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixlinter.rugithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.relex.ruSiteWhereJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20151984199020102019
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.614.10.FC5, November 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC, C++ and JavaC and C++JavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, each node contains all data
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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