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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. DuckDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Galaxybase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

duckdb.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

galaxybase.com

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

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

duckdb.org/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

FairCom Corporation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2015

2018

1979

2017

1994

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

0.10, February 2024

V12, November 2020

Nov 20, November 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

ANSI C, C++

C and Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Go
Java
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Role-based access control

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