DBMS > Hazelcast vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Tkrzw

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

hazelcast.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

rocksdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Hazelcast

Konrad von Backstrom

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2008

2018

2015

2013

2020

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

selectable replication factor

yes

none

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

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.