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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopWell established RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookActian CorporationEmbarcadero
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19842005
Current release3.1.3, April 202211.2, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorIngres ReplicatorInterbase Change Viewsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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