DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Immudb vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Immudb vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.mysql.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.immudb.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Hazelcast

Codenotary

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oushu

Initial release

2008

2020

2014

1995

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

1.2.3, April 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like syntax

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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