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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. DuckDB vs. Memgraph

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#183	Overall
	#82	Relational DBMS

Score	7.44
Rank	#44	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	2.54
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

duckdb.org

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

duckdb.org/docs

memgraph.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2015

2018

2017

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

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Recent citations in the news

Overhauling Apache Kylin for the cloud
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eBay’s Kylin Becomes a Top-Level Apache Open Source Project
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