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DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Derby vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Spanner

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Derby vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
cloud.google.com/­spanner
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogle
Initial release2015199720232017
Current release3.1.0, July 202010.17.1.0, November 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesscheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresLuano
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infoStrict serializable isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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