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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Hazelcast

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

Microsoft

Initial release

2008

2014

1984

1989

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
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

yes

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

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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