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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SingleStore vs. Trafodion

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.singlestore.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.singlestore.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookEmbarcaderoMicrosoftSingleStore Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20121984201620132014
Current release3.1.3, April 2022InterBase 2020, December 20198.5, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++, GoC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageTransact SQLyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorInterbase Change ViewsyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HiveInterbaseMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTrafodion
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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