DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Snowflake vs. Solr vs. SWC-DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Snowflake vs. Solr vs. SWC-DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
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Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Hazelcast

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Rocket Software

Initial release

2008

2014

2006

2020

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

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

optimistic locking

ACID

configurable

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

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

yes

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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