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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Widely used open source RDBMS

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

McObject

Hazelcast

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2015

2001

2008

1995

2005

Current release

8.2, 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Events

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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