DBMS > Hive vs. Interbase vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Interbase vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.08
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Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

hive.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

nsdb.io

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

nsdb.io/Architecture

doc.nuodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Embarcadero

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

1984

2017

2013

2021

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Interbase Change Views

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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Specific characteristics

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