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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB 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 containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisjsqldb.org (offline)www.progress.com/­openedgepostgis.net
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationInterSystemsKonrad von BackstromProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20152018201819842005
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62023.3, June 20230.8, December 2018OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesfunctions in JavaScriptyesuser defined functions
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
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 implementationsyesUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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