DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. CockroachDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hypertable vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. CockroachDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hypertable vs. OrientDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Cockroach Labs

Google

Hypertable Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2015

2010

2009

2010

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

24.1.0, May 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Thrift

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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.

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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