DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Coveo vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Coveo vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

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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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.coveo.com

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Coveo

Machbase

Facebook, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2012

2013

1998

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

V8.0, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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