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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Blueflood vs. FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. SQLite

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

blueflood.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Rackspace

FatCloud

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2013

2012

2013

2000

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.7.5, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
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

via file-system locks

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple rights management via user accounts

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