DBMS > Hazelcast vs. MongoDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Raima Database Manager vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. MongoDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Raima Database Manager vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.objectbox.io

docs.raima.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Hazelcast

MongoDB, Inc

ObjectBox Limited

Raima Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2009

2017

1984

2016

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

6.0.7, June 2023

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

JavaScript

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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