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Name

Description

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	78.50
Rank	#14	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2012

Current release

3.1.2, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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