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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	78.66
Rank	#17	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#96	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#355	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#317	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant

boilerbay.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Boiler Bay Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2010

2002

2018

Current release

3.1.2, August 2019

4.0

10.0.21, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control

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