DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

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

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2008

2015

1995

2019

2020

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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