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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

postgis.net

siridb.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Hazelcast

Oracle

Cesbit

Initial release

2008

2011

2005

2017

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

23.3, December 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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 within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple rights management via user accounts

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