DBMS > HBase vs. Hive vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Hive vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

hive.apache.org

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

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

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2008

2012

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1980

2009

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

3.6, May 2018

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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.

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users, groups and roles

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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