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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. JSqlDb vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

postgis.net/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2018

2005

2012

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

0.8, December 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

yes

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

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

no

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

using RocksDB

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on PostgreSQL

no

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