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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

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	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

kairosdb.github.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Hazelcast

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2008

2013

2014

1984

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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