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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.memcached.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Hazelcast

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Cesbit

Initial release

2008

2014

2003

2017

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

1.6.29, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

simple rights management via user accounts

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