DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Cassandra vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Cassandra vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

opentsdb.net

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

graphite.readthedocs.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Chris Davis

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2015

2008

2006

2011

2009

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

4.1.3, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
Telnet API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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 rights for users can be defined per object

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