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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Faircom DB vs. SAP HANA vs. StarRocks

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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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

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

help.sap.com/hana

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

FairCom Corporation

SAP

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2015

1979

2010

2020

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

V13, July 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

easily portable to other OSs

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

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

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

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).

yes

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
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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