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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comhsqldb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlprometheus.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperHazelcastOracleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20082001201120152014
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.7.2, June 202323.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQLnonono
Triggersyes infoEventsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACID for single-table writes
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 infooff heap cachenoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno
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HazelcastHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBOracle NoSQLPrometheusQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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