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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Memgraph vs. OpenQM vs. RocksDB

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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.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
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	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

ignite.apache.org

memgraph.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Memgraph Ltd

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2017

1993

2013

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.4-12

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

with some exceptions

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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