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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. EJDB vs. GridDB vs. HarperDB vs. TimesTen

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgriddb.netwww.harperdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.griddb.netdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncSoftmotionsToshiba CorporationHarperDBOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20152012201320171998
Current release3.1.0, July 20205.1, August 20223.1, August 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Node.js
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinuxLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes infoJSON data typesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like data manipulation statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1PL/SQL
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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