DBMS > Hive vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#18	Overall
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Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

2009

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

10 R1, October 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

via views

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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