DBMS > Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

hazelcast.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Hazelcast

IBM

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2008

1983

host version

2016

2013

2005

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

12.1, October 2016

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Transact SQL

R packages

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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