DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

rocksdb.org

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

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Hazelcast

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2008

1999

2013

2020

1999

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

V8.0, August 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

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

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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