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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. VelocityDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatavelocitydb.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatavelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SiteWhereRocket SoftwareVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122010201019852011
Current release3.1.3, April 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaCC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptionalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyes infoU2 BasicCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID infoconfigurableACID
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedBased on Windows Authentication

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