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DBMS > Hive vs. LokiJS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. LokiJS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJSspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2012201420142014
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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