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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. openGauss vs. VelocityDB

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from Clickhousedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iohive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
velocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Huawei and openGauss communityVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20202012201020192011
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.0, March 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC, C++, JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoANSI SQL 2011no
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
TriggersnonoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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