DBMS > Hive vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

hive.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2018

1989

2020

2016

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

0.8, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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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