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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. VoltDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.voltdb.com

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Hazelcast

VoltDB Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2005

2008

2010

2023

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

for development

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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 and roles with access to stored procedures

Access Control Lists

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