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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.mireo.com/­spacetimespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftMireoApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122003201220202014
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.6.27, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFixed-grid hypercubesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Real-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyesno

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