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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Ingres vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Ingres vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridWell established RDBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitehazelcast.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.postgres-xl.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdoc.nuodb.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperHazelcastActian CorporationDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Rockset
Initial release20081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current release5.3.6, November 202311.2, May 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCC++CC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 strategyno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesyesJava, SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoEventsyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslydata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapIngres Replicatoryes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes
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 AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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