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System Properties Comparison Apache Hive vs. HyperSQL vs. SvectorDB

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NameApache Hive  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSvectorDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBServerless cloud-native vector database infoServerless cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score62.49
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#381  Overall
#18  Vector DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orghsqldb.orgsvectordb.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.svectordb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSvectorDB
Initial release201220012023
Current release3.1.3, April 20222.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesserver-less
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, vector
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
OpenAPI 3.0, RESTful HTTP API, Python SDK, JavaScript / TypeScript SDK
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava, SQL
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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