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DBMS > Hive vs. LMDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. LMDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarySpatial extension of SQLiteA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSymasAlessandro FurieriByteDance, originally TerarkOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122011200820161998
Current release3.1.3, April 20220.9.32, January 20245.0.0, August 202011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
server-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenononoPL/SQL
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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