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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. BigchainDB vs. DuckDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Hypertable

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comduckdb.orggalaxybase.com
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestduckdb.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Hypertable Inc.
Initial release20152016201820172009
Current release3.1.0, July 20201.0.0, June 2024Nov 20, November 20210.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++C and JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-lessLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
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
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole-based access controlno

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