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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 CPUsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationKineticaMireoTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20152012202019872011
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.67.1, August 2021Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC, C++C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyesno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication
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 configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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