DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Hypertable vs. NCache vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Hypertable vs. NCache vs. OrientDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Hypertable Inc.

Alachisoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2015

2009

2005

2010

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

restricted

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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