DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. ClickHouse vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. ClickHouse vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

clickhouse.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

clickhouse.com/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Clickhouse Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2016

1984

2010

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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