DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Cassandra vs. FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Cassandra vs. FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. YTsaurus

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

nsdb.io

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Yandex

Initial release

2015

2008

1983

2017

2023

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

4.1.3, July 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

PHP

Java
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

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

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access Control Lists

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