DBMS > etcd vs. Hazelcast vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Hazelcast vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

hazelcast.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Hazelcast

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2008

2007

2010

Current release

3.4, August 2019

5.3.6, November 2023

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Events

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

Replicated Map

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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