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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SingleStore

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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.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

origodb.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

origodb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2015

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

1992

2013

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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