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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.55
Rank	#252	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

HarperDB

Community supported by Red Hat

Hazelcast

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2014

2008

2018

Current release

3.1, August 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

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 and roles

Role-based access control

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