DBMS > Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. Realm vs. RisingWave vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. Realm vs. RisingWave vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.mysql.com

realm.io

www.risingwave.com/database

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

realm.io/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Hazelcast

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

RisingWave Labs

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2008

1995

2014

2022

2019

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

1.2, September 2023

1.19, May 2023

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 Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

UDFs in Python or Java

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

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

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Users and Roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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