DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Hive vs. InfinityDB vs. LMDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. InfinityDB vs. LMDB vs. RDF4J

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitehive.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbrdf4j.org
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.lmdb.tech/­docrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBoiler Bay Inc.SymasSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2012200220112004
Current release3.1.3, April 20224.00.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaJavaCJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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 indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonono

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
HiveInfinityDBLMDBRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
DB-Engines blog posts

Why is Hadoop not listed in the DB-Engines Ranking?
13 May 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Hive 4.0
30 April 2024, Datanami

Design a data mesh pattern for Amazon EMR-based data lakes using AWS Lake Formation with Hive metastore ...
10 June 2024, AWS Blog

18 Top Big Data Tools and Technologies to Know About in 2024
24 January 2024, TechTarget

ASF Unveils the Next Evolution of Big Data Processing With the Launch of Hive 4.0
2 May 2024, Datanami

Run Apache Hive workloads using Spark SQL with Amazon EMR on EKS | Amazon Web Services
18 October 2023, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

The Tom Brady Data Biography
8 September 2023, StatsBomb

Automating SAP S/4HANA Migration with IT-Conductor, BGP Managed Services, and AWS | Amazon Web Services
22 August 2023, AWS Blog

The Lightning Memory-mapped Database
2 March 2016, InfoQ.com

Akamai launches managed database service – Blocks and Files
25 April 2022, Blocks and Files

Jaxon Repp on HarperDB Distributed Database Platform
23 March 2022, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

GraphDB Goes Open Source
27 January 2020, iProgrammer

Ontotext's GraphDB 8.10 Makes Knowledge Graph Experience Faster and Richer
13 June 2019, Markets Insider

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here