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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Faircom DB vs. OceanBase vs. OrientDB vs. VoltDB

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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

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

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

en.oceanbase.com

orientdb.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

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

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

FairCom Corporation

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

1979

2010

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

V12, November 2020

4.3.0, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Java, Javascript

Java

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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