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

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake 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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

hazelcast.com

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

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2008

2015

2014

2020

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

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

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

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