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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. PouchDB vs. QuestDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitehazelcast.compouchdb.comquestdb.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesquestdb.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperHazelcastApache Software FoundationQuestDB Technology IncDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2008201220142018
Current release5.3.6, November 20237.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyes infoEventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoRole-based access control
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HazelcastPouchDBQuestDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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