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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. DuckDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgduckdb.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquasar.ai
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsduckdb.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncSpotifyHypertable Inc.quasardb
Initial release20152018201420092009
Current release3.1.0, July 20200.10, February 20240.9.8.11, March 20163.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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