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DBMS > Hive vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.voltdb.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software FoundationAlex KashirinVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2012201420202010
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 202111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoJava
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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