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System Properties Comparison Apache Hive vs. DuckDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameApache Hive  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score75.77
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score7.44
Rank#44  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgduckdb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeduckdb.org/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookAlessandro Furieri
Initial release201220182008
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.0.0, June 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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