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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Trino

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.aiquestdb.iotrino.io
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoftquasardbQuestDB Technology IncTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20122016200920142012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceTransact SQLnonoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)depending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencydepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID for single-table writesdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailSQL standard access control
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HiveMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseQuasardbQuestDBTrino
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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