DBMS > Hive vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerarkDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerarkDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

1984

2014

2016

2009

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

C++ API
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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