DBMS > Hive vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Qdrant

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

1995

1994

2021

2010

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Key-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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