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DBMS > Hive vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series 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
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgopentsdb.netquestdb.io
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMonetDB BVcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2012200420112014
Current release3.1.3, April 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
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 Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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HiveMonetDBOpenTSDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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