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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitehazelcast.comhsqldb.orgwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.kinetica.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperHazelcastHypertable Inc.KineticaOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20082001200920122009
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.7.2, June 20230.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C, C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQLnouser defined functionsErlang
Triggersyes infoEventsyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes, using Riak Security

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