DBMS > etcd vs. Ignite vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Ignite vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

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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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

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

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

ignite.apache.org

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Mireo

Initial release

2015

2012

2010

2020

Current release

3.4, August 2019

Apache Ignite 2.6

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

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

yes

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