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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Lovefield vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite

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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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

SADAS s.r.l.

SiteWhere

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

2014

2006

2010

2008

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.1.12, February 2017

8.0

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

JavaScript

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

predefined 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 query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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