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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Citus vs. Ehcache vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.citusdata.com

www.ehcache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.citusdata.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2010

2009

2000

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

8.1, December 2018

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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