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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Hazelcast

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Simer Plaha

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2008

2010

2018

2020

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Events

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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