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DBMS > Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Informix vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Informix vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCloud-based data warehousing serviceA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
ravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBMIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Hibernating RhinosAlex Kashirin
Initial release20122014198420102020
Current release3.1.3, April 202214.10.FC5, November 20205.4, July 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++ and JavaC#C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesno
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePL/SQL, SQL PLyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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