DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

google.github.io/lovefield

quasar.ai

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Hazelcast

Google

quasardb

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2008

2014

2009

2017

2020

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

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)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

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

C#
C++
Python

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

consistent hashing

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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