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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. Riak KV

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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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.datomic.com

www.esgyn.cn

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.datomic.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Cognitect

Esgyn

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2012

2015

2009

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

Erlang

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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