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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. OceanBase vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
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Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgen.oceanbase.comquasar.aiwww.timescale.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupquasardbTimescaleVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20152010200920172018
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.64.3.0, April 20243.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC++C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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