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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. BigchainDB vs. Valentina Server vs. XTDB

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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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Object-relational database and reports server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

www.valentina-db.net

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Paradigma Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2016

1999

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.7.5

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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