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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2015

2013

1995

2012

1987

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

V8.0, August 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

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

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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