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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SiteWhere

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kinetica.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serversitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKineticaMicrosoftSiteWhere
Initial release20122013201219892010
Current release3.1.3, April 20222.7.6, April 20247.1, August 2021SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC, C++C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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