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DBMS > Hive vs. Kingbase vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Kingbase vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnrealm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homerealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2012199920141992
Current release3.1.3, April 2022V8.0, August 202117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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