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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engineDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgprometheus.ioquasar.aiwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookquasardbTranswarpYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2012201520092017
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.no infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes
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Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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