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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2015

2018

1989

1994

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

0.8, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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