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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL vs. KairosDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

hsqldb.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

kairosdb.github.io

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Hazelcast

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2008

2001

2013

1998

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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