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DBMS > Hive vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitehive.apache.orgravendb.netspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHibernating RhinosOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software FoundationStardog-Union
Initial release20122010200920142010
Current release3.1.3, April 20225.4, July 20223.2.0, December 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20237.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#ErlangScalaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictednoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (RQL)noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesErlangnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"yes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 rolesAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes, using Riak SecuritynoAccess rights for users and roles

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