DBMS > Hazelcast vs. JanusGraph vs. NuoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. JanusGraph vs. NuoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

janusgraph.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

doc.nuodb.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hazelcast

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2017

2013

2015

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
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

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

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java
Python

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Java, SQL

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users and roles

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

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