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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.compostgis.netrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docspostgis.net/­documentationrealm.io/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperHazelcastRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20082005201420112017
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.4.2, February 20244.0.8, September 20152.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC#C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 strategyyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnonoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes infoEventsyesyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesnoyes
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HazelcastPostGISRealmSTSdbYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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