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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. YugabyteDB

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.progress.com/openedge

postgis.net

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

postgis.net/documentation

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Progress Software Corporation

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2015

2018

1984

2005

2017

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

0.8, December 2018

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

close to SQL 92

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

based on RocksDB

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

Users and groups

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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