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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Apache Pinot vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

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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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

pinot.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.pinot.apache.org

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2015

2010

2017

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.0.0, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

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