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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. openGauss vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

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

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

opentsdb.net

realm.io

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

realm.io/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Hazelcast

Huawei and openGauss community

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2008

2019

2011

2014

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.0, March 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL

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, C++, Java

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Java

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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