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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. ClickHouse vs. DuckDB

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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

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An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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Secondary database models

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Rank	#177	Overall
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Score	15.19
Rank	#39	Overall
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Score	3.40
Rank	#103	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

clickhouse.com

duckdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

clickhouse.com/docs

duckdb.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Clickhouse Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2018

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

v23.7.4.5-stable, August 2023

0.2, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

yes, when using the MergeTree engine

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Close to ANSI SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Scala

3rd party library

C
C++
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users and roles

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