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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#17	Overall
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Score	1.81
Rank	#131	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	31.82
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2004

2005

Current release

3.1.2, August 2019

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

3.2.1, February 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Specific characteristics

Column-store In-memory optimized GeoSpatial support JSON document support
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Competitive advantages

Scalable architecture - vertical data organization and in-memory optimization guarantee...
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Typical application scenarios

Analytical database, Data warehouse, OLAP Data mining Scientific database
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Key customers

Numascale , Spinque , SecurActive , CHS , NOZHUP
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Licensing and pricing models

Free and open-source software, Mozilla Public License 2.0 Commercial support available
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