DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Sphinx vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Sphinx vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.98
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	#5	Search engines

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

sphinxsearch.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hazelcast

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2001

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

JavaScript

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

configurable

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.

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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