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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Pinecone vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 databaseEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationPinecone Systems, IncStardog-UnionApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2015201920102014
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.67.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Python.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication in HA-Clusteryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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