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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JSqlDb vs. SiteWhere

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Hazelcast

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

SiteWhere

Initial release

2008

2017

2018

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Active-active shard replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

using RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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