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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrientDB vs. YDB

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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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

orientdb.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2015

2014

2010

2019

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

JavaScript

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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