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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	29.85
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

hazelcast.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Esgyn

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2008

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Replicated Map

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

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 can be defined down to the item level

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