DBMS > Hive vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

GPU-accelerated database for real-time analysis of large and streaming datasets

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

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Trend Chart

Score	84.24
Rank	#14	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#305	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#198	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#220	Overall
	#10	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#292	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.irondb.io/docs

www.kinetica.com/docs

docs.rdf4j.org

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation info

initially developed by Facebook

Circonus LLC.

Kinetica

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

2004

2011

Current release

3.1.2, August 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

6.0

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source info

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO info

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL info

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Master-slave replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Based on Windows Authentication

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