DBMS > Hive vs. RocksDB vs. TigerGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. RocksDB vs. TigerGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tigergraph.com

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2018

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role-based access control

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