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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. TigerGraph

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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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Kinetica

SAP

Initial release

2015

2012

2010

2017

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

Role-based access control

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