DBMS > Hive vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#18	Overall
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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP

formerly Sybase

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

1989

2017

1992

2017

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

17, July 2015

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
Java

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

replication via a shared file system

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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