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System Properties Comparison Apache Hive vs. Dolt vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	75.77
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	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#232	Overall
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#228	Overall
	#38	Document stores
	#105	Relational DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolthub.com

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

DoltHub Inc

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2018

2019

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license 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
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

CLI Client
HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Active-passive shard replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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