DBMS > Ignite vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. ScyllaDB

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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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Rank	#115	Overall
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	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
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Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

ignite.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

rocksdb.org

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2015

2011

1992

2013

2015

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.23, February 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

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

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

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

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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