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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Linter vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

postgis.net/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

relex.ru

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Initial release

2012

1990

1995

2005

2019

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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