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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Hazelcast

DataJaguar, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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