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DBMS > Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TigerGraph vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TigerGraph vs. Vitess

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.tigergraph.comvitess.io
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.tigergraph.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2012201020172013
Current release3.1.3, April 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 databaseRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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