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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. ClickHouse vs. HBase vs. YugabyteDB

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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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

clickhouse.com/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2008

2017

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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