DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

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

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2016

1995

2020

2019

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

9.0.0, July 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

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

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

C++

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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