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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.postgres-xl.org

sqream.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.sqream.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Hazelcast

SQream Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2008

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

1987

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

10 R1, October 2018

2022.1.6, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

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

MVCC

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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