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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperHazelcastEmbarcaderoquasardb
Initial release200819842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current release5.3.6, November 2023InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoEventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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