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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#204  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgpostgis.netsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homepostgis.net/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201220052022
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.4.2, February 2024v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaCRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, based on authentication and database rules

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