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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Memcached vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.memcached.orgprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookInterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalquasardb
Initial release20122018200320152009
Current release3.1.3, April 20222023.3, June 20231.6.27, May 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.yesno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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