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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. LevelDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RavenDB vs. searchxml

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitehive.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.postgres-xl.orgravendb.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationravendb.net/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookGoogleHibernating Rhinosinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release201220112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20102015
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.23, February 202110 R1, October 20185.4, July 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC#C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functionsyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablemultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
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 rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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