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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server 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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
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	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

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

pouchdb.com

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

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

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

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2015

1989

2012

1987

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
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

yes

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)

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
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

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

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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