DBMS > Ignite vs. MarkLogic vs. MySQL vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. MarkLogic vs. MySQL vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

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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.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.mysql.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

MarkLogic Corp.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

informationpartners gmbh

Mireo

Initial release

2015

2001

1995

2015

2020

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

11.0, December 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL92

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

on the application server

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

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

multiple readers, single writer

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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