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System Properties Comparison Apache Hive vs. BigObject

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Name

Description

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

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Website

hive.apache.org

bigobject.io

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

BigObject, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition 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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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