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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Hazelcast vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.postgresql.fastware.com

hazelcast.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Hazelcast

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2008

2014

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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