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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Prometheus vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

prometheus.io

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

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

prometheus.io/docs

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

Developer

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Rocket Software

Initial release

2008

2014

2015

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

JavaScript

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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