DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. TDengine

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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 high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.snowflake.com

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

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Hazelcast

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2008

2014

2020

2019

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.5, April 2021

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

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

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

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

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