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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridSpatial extension of PostgreSQLColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.compostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docspostgis.net/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperHazelcastSAP, formerly SybaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release2008200519942014
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.4.2, February 202416.1 SPS04, April 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyes infoEventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyes infobased on PostgreSQLSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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