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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache vs. OrientDB vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

orientdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Alachisoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

1989

2005

2010

2018

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

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")

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Notifications

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Role-based access control

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