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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. Qdrant vs. Rockset

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rockset.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationKineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalQdrantRockset
Initial release20152012200320212019
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.67.1, August 20211.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC, C++CRustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleandynamic typing
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.yesnonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsnono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityCollection-level replicationyes
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 Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolKey-based authenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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