DBMS > Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. SQream DB vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. SQream DB vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Widely used open source RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.mysql.com

sqream.com

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.sqream.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Hazelcast

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SQream Technologies

Alex Kashirin

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2008

1995

2017

2020

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

11.3, April 2022

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions in Python

Java

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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