DBMS > Ignite vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

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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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

spark.apache.org/sql

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Kyligence, Inc.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Splice Machine

Initial release

2015

2016

1989

2014

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Java

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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