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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trafodion

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobilea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comobjectbox.iosqream.comwww.timescale.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.objectbox.iodocs.sqream.comdocs.timescale.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperHazelcastObjectBox LimitedSQream TechnologiesTimescaleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20082017201720172014
Current release5.3.6, November 20232022.1.6, December 20222.15.0, May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaCC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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 strategynoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnouser defined functions in Pythonuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoEventsnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Maponline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACIDACIDACID
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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