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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. MaxDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitehive.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comprometheus.ioquasar.airethinkdb.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997quasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20121984201520092009
Current release3.1.3, April 20227.9.10.12, February 20243.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnono
TriggersnoyesnonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissions

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