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DBMS > Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Yaacomo

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.39
Rank#81  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#283  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#128  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.leanxcale.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsLeanXcaleQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20122010201820152009
Current release3.1.3, April 20222023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes infothrough Apache Derbyyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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