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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Hyprcubd vs. Informix vs. Ingres vs. Memcached

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridServerless Time Series DBMSA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataWell established RDBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitehazelcast.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.memcached.org
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperHazelcastHyprcubd, Inc.IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Actian CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release200819841974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2003
Current release5.3.6, November 202314.10.FC5, November 202011.2, May 20221.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC, C++ and JavaCC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesno
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnoyesyesno
Triggersyes infoEventsnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controltoken accessUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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