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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Hazelcast vs. JSqlDb vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

griddb.net

hazelcast.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Hazelcast

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2013

2008

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

5.1, August 2022

5.3.6, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

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 at container level

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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