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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Valentina Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	19.17
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#330	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

postgis.net/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Hazelcast

Sybase, SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2008

2005

1993

1999

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

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
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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