DBMS > Hazelcast vs. KeyDB vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. KeyDB vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.mysql.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.keydb.dev

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Hazelcast

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2019

1995

2020

2022

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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 and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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