DBMS > Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.mysql.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Hazelcast

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software

Initial release

2008

2014

1995

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

MVCC

ACID

configurable

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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