DBMS > Hive vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.postgres-xl.org

www.splunk.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oracle

Splunk Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1980

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2003

2011

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

23c, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

MVCC

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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