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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

postgis.net

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2005

2009

2012

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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