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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. VoltDB

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatadocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperHazelcastApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyRocket SoftwareVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20082008201419852010
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.3.4, January 202111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaCJava, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesoptionalyes
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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoyesJava
Triggersyes infoEventsyesnoyes infoU2 Basicno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID infoconfigurableACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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