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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Hypertable vs. InfinityDB vs. Memgraph vs. MonetDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgboilerbay.commemgraph.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmemgraph.com/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Memgraph LtdMonetDB BV
Initial release20122009200220172004
Current release3.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 20164.0Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
All OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonoUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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