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System Properties Comparison Apache Hive vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	53.09
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#64	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#130	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

hive.apache.org

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.datastax.com

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

DataStax

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2011

2010

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

6.8, April 2020

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

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
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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