DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Citus vs. EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Citus vs. EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.citusdata.com

www.esgyn.cn

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.citusdata.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Esgyn

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2015

2010

2015

2018

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

8.1, December 2018

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

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18 November 2021, InfoWorld

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9 December 2015, eBay Inc.

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