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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB

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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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Hazelcast

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2008

2018

1989

2004

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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