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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

2005

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Active-active shard replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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