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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Trafodion

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.sadasengine.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperHazelcastIBMOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20081983 infohost version200920062014
Current release5.3.6, November 202312.1, October 20163.2.0, December 20228.02.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++ErlangC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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 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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesyesErlangnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoEventsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoACID
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.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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