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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score807.76
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score41.32
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#69  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitehazelcast.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperHazelcastMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAPScyllaDB
Initial release20081989200920102015
Current release5.3.6, November 2023SQL Server 2022, November 20223.2.0, December 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavaErlangSQLScript, Ryes, Lua
Triggersyes infoEventsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infono "single point of failure"yesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityyesAccess rights for users can be defined per object
More information provided by the system vendor
HazelcastMicrosoft SQL ServerRiak KVSAP HANAScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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