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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iordf4j.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationPinecone Systems, IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Rockset
Initial release2015201920042019
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesdynamic typing
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
PythonJava
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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