DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Ignite vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Tarantool vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Tarantool vs. ToroDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. 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.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgpouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docspouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSAP, formerly SybaseVK8Kdata
Initial release20152012199420082016
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.67.1.1, June 201916.1 SPS04, April 20192.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJavaScriptC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptyesLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
SAP/Sybase Replication ServerAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
IgnitePouchDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTarantoolToroDB
DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Data processing speed and reliability: in-memory synchronous replication
9 November 2021,  Vladimir Perepelytsya, Tarantool (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

Apache Ignite: An Overview
6 September 2023, Open Source For You

GridGain Releases Conference Schedule for Virtual Apache Ignite Summit 2023
1 June 2023, Datanami

What is Apache Ignite? How is Apache Ignite Used?
18 July 2022, The Stack

Real-time in-memory OLTP and Analytics with Apache Ignite on AWS | Amazon Web Services
14 May 2016, AWS Blog

Fire up big data processing with Apache Ignite
27 October 2016, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

Building an Offline First App with PouchDB — SitePoint
10 March 2014, SitePoint

Getting Started with PouchDB Client-Side JavaScript Database — SitePoint
7 September 2016, SitePoint

3 Reasons To Think Offline First
22 March 2017, ibm.com

Create Offline Web Apps Using Service Workers & PouchDB — SitePoint
7 March 2017, SitePoint

Offline-first web and mobile apps: Top frameworks and components
22 January 2019, TechBeacon

provided by Google News

Independent Research Firm Names SAP a Leader in Data Management for Analytics
17 February 2020, SAP News

SAP Again Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems
21 December 2021, SAP News

Rimini Street expands support beyond SAP and Oracle
11 June 2022, InsideSAP

SAP Scales Out HANA In-Memory For Clouds
6 March 2014, EnterpriseAI

provided by Google News

Tarantool Announces New Enterprise Version With Enhanced Scaling and Monitoring Capabilities
18 May 2018, Newswire

Deploying Tarantool Cartridge applications with zero effort (Part 1)
16 December 2019, Хабр

VShard — horizontal scaling in Tarantool
7 March 2019, Хабр

Accelerating PHP connectors for Tarantool using Async, Swoole, and Parallel
18 December 2019, Хабр

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Present your product here