DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com

www.hawkular.org

hazelcast.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Hazelcast

Initial release

2012

2007

2014

2008

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

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

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Replicated Map

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role-based access control

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