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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Hazelcast vs. Hive vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MongoDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

hazelcast.com

hive.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.mongodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

Altibase

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

InterSystems

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

1999

2008

2012

2018

2009

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

2023.3, June 2023

6.0.7, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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