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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. EsgynDB vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

kairosdb.github.io

docs.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Esgyn

Kinetica

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2015

2013

2012

2004

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.2.2, November 2018

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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