DBMS > FatDB vs. Hive vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Hive vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/hana

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Percona

SAP

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2010

2017

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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