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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Kylin vs. DuckDB

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.54
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Score	3.64
Rank	#98	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

duckdb.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

kylin.apache.org/docs

duckdb.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Initial release

2012

2015

2018

Current release

27.0.0, August 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

0.9, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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 for querying

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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