DBMS > Ignite vs. JaguarDB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. JaguarDB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

2000

2014

2008

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.3 July 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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