DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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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 global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
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Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
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Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Cloudflare

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2015

2018

2011

2013

2016

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

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