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Name

Description

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

DataChemist Ltd.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

2018

2020

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Journaling Streams

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role-based access control

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