DBMS > Hive vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenMLDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenMLDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

hive.apache.org

kx.com

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

openmldb.ai

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

code.kx.com

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

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Microsoft

4 Paradigm Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1989

2020

2004

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

3.6, May 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

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

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

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

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

similar paradigm used for internal processing

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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