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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. BaseX vs. DuckDB vs. FatDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

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

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

basex.org

duckdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.basex.org

duckdb.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

BaseX GmbH

FatCloud

Initial release

2015

2007

2018

2012

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

10.7, August 2023

0.10, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

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

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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