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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Kuzu vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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.

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#402	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

ignite.apache.org

kuzudb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.kuzudb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2015

2022

2013

2005

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

0.4.2, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

R packages

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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