DBMS > BoltDB vs. Hive vs. Immudb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hive vs. Immudb vs. Snowflake

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

hive.apache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.immudb.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Codenotary

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2020

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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