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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteignite.apache.orgpouchdb.comswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20152012201820182019
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.67.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJavaScriptScalaProlog, RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
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
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneGraph Partitioningnone
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
noneJournaling Streamsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnonoRole-based access control

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