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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. ArcadeDB vs. Immudb vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

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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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

arcadedb.com

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.immudb.io

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Arcade Data

Codenotary

Oushu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2021

2020

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

September 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like syntax

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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.

User concepts

Access control

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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