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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. NSDb vs. RisingWave

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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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

nsdb.io

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

kylin.apache.org/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

2022

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users and Roles

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Recent citations in the news

Apache Drill case study: A tutorial on processing CSV files
9 June 2016, TheServerSide.com

Analyse Kafka messages with SQL queries using Apache Drill
23 September 2019, Towards Data Science

Apache Drill Poised to Crack Tough Data Challenges
19 May 2015, Datanami

Apache Drill Eliminates ETL, Data Transformation for MapR Database
11 April 2016, The New Stack

Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine
31 August 2021, TechTarget

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Overhauling Apache Kylin for the cloud
18 November 2021, InfoWorld

eBay's Kylin Becomes a Top-Level Apache Open Source Project
9 December 2015, eBay Inc.

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Kylin™ as a Top-Level Project
8 December 2015, GlobeNewswire

Bringing interactive BI to big data – O'Reilly
1 May 2017, oreilly.com

Distributed OLAPer Kyligence accelerates core engine, adds real-time data support – Blocks and Files
10 August 2021, Blocks & Files

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Streaming Databases: Embracing the Convergence of Stream Processing and Databases
17 May 2024, InfoQ.com

RisingWave Cloud Democratizes Event Stream Processing, Making It Affordable at Cloud Scale
27 June 2023, Datanami

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5 March 2024, iProgrammer

Building a Formula 1 Streaming Data Pipeline With Kafka and Risingwave
5 September 2023, KDnuggets

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12 February 2024, GlobeNewswire

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