DBMS > Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. QuestDB vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. QuestDB vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

questdb.io/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

Hazelcast

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

QuestDB Technology Inc

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2008

1995

2014

2020

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

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

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 with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

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

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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 for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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