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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. DuckDB vs. Hypertable vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. DuckDB vs. Hypertable vs. Yaacomo

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgkylin.apache.orgduckdb.orgyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docskylin.apache.org/­docsduckdb.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncHypertable Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20122015201820092009
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.1.0, July 20200.10, February 20240.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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