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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orghazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperEnterpriseDBGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red HatHazelcast
Initial release20052007201420082014
Current release14, December 2021GridGain 8.5.15.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesnoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
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 infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoReplicated Mapnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithmnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoRole-based access controlno

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