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DBMS > Hive vs. Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgprometheus.ioquasar.aivictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookquasardbVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201520092018
Current release3.1.3, April 202210 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoC++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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