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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenSearch vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.46
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	#7	Key-value stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2008

2012

2021

2009

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

none

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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 based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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