DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. ArcadeDB vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. ArcadeDB vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Arcade Data

DolphinDB, Inc

SAP

Initial release

2012

2015

2021

2018

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

September 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

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 SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

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