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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Ingres vs. MaxDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Actian Corporation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

2016

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

11.2, May 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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