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DBMS > etcd vs. Ignite vs. ObjectBox vs. Sadas Engine vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Ignite vs. ObjectBox vs. Sadas Engine vs. TypeDB

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeApache 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 MobileSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
ignite.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.sadasengine.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
apacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.objectbox.iowww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationObjectBox LimitedSADAS s.r.l.Vaticle
Initial release2015201720062016
Current release3.4, August 2019Apache Ignite 2.68.02.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++, Java, .NetC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonono
Triggersyes, watching key changesyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes (replicated cache)online/offline synchronization between client and servernoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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