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DBMS > Hive vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. VoltDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and OracleDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgpostgis.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundbwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homepostgis.net/­documentationdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookTranswarpVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2012200520092010
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.4.2, February 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
TinkerPop 3Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsnoyesJava
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptionalyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoyesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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