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DBMS > Hive vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. Teradata Aster

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclequasardbTeradata
Initial release20121994201520092005
Current release3.1.3, April 202218.1.40, May 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)GoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoImport of XML data possiblenoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenononoR packages
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APInonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonowith Hadoop integrationyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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