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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BaseX

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#183	Overall
	#82	Relational DBMS

Score	1.82
Rank	#124	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#147	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

phoenix.apache.org

basex.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

phoenix.apache.org

docs.basex.org

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

Initial release

2015

2014

2007

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

11.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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Recent citations in the news

Overhauling Apache Kylin for the cloud
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