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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transbase

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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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2013

1992

1987

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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