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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#202	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

velocitydb.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Hazelcast

VelocityDB Inc

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2008

2011

2013

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.x

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Any that supports .NET

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.Net

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Based on Windows Authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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