DBMS > Hazelcast vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2008

2012

2014

2012

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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