DBMS > Hazelcast vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.jaguardb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hazelcast

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2015

1991

2013

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

5.7

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
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
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication

yes

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

yes

ACID

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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