DBMS > EXASOL vs. Hive vs. Oracle vs. SiriDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Hive vs. Oracle vs. SiriDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Widely used RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

hive.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

siridb.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.siridb.com

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Exasol

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oracle

Cesbit

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2000

2012

1980

2017

2013

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

23c, September 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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