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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.snowflake.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2014

2019

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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