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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. KeyDB vs. NSDb

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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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Rank	#57	Overall
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Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.keydb.dev

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Hazelcast

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2019

2017

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

by using the Redis Search module

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

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

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Lua

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
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
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

Using Apache Lucene

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

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