DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.kinetica.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.kinetica.com

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hazelcast

Kinetica

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2012

2017

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.1, August 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

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