DBMS > Hive vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

hive.apache.org

boilerbay.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rdf4j.org

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

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

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2012

2002

1989

2004

2015

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

4.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java

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

Java
PHP
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Competitive advantages

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