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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB vs. HBase vs. Memcached

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitekylin.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgduckdb.orghbase.apache.orgwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinot.apache.orgduckdb.org/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20152015201820082003
Current release3.1.0, July 20201.0.0, September 20230.10, February 20242.3.4, January 20211.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
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
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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