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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Initial release

2015

2017

2010

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

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

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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