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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Blueflood vs. HBase vs. MaxDB vs. NSDb

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hbase.apache.org/book.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2015

2013

2008

1984

2017

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.3.4, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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