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System Properties Comparison Apache Hive vs. EsgynDB

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Website

hive.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Esgyn

Initial release

2012

2015

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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