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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Memgraph vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgmemgraph.comwww.monetdb.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homememgraph.com/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMemgraph LtdMonetDB BV
Initial release2012201720042005
Current release3.1.3, April 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding via remote tablesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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HiveMemgraphMonetDBPostGIS
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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