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DBMS > Hive vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Netezza vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Netezza vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homekairosdb.github.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoftIBMYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20122013201020002017
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.2.2, November 2018V122.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data model
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoTransact SQLyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes
More information provided by the system vendor
HiveKairosDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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