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DBMS > Hive vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequasar.ai
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddoc.nuodb.comdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookEmbarcaderoGoogleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.quasardb
Initial release20121984201420132009
Current release3.1.3, April 2022InterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 20173.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercial 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 languageJavaCJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
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-reduceyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoJava, SQLno
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorInterbase Change Viewsnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes infoTemporary tableyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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