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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MaxDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 multi-model DBMS and application serverA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemaxdb.sap.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software FoundationInterSystemsSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2015199719842013
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62018.1.4, May 20207.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyesJavaScript
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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