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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Tkrzw vs. VelocityDB

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#354	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

dbmx.net/tkrzw

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2010

1989

2020

2011

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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