DBMS > Hive vs. jBASE vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. jBASE vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spatial extension of SQLite

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alessandro Furieri

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

1991

2008

2000

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

5.7

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

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

via file-system locks

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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