DBMS > Hive vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

hive.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.monetdb.org

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.intersystems.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

InterSystems

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

1997

2004

2013

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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