DBMS > BoltDB vs. Hive vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hive vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

hive.apache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.immudb.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Codenotary

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2012

2020

2014

2020

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

1.2.3, April 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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