DBMS > Hive vs. MarkLogic vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. MarkLogic vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

hive.apache.org

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

doc.nuodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

MarkLogic Corp.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

2001

2013

2021

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

11.0, December 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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, with Range Indexes

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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