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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Fauna vs. GBase vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgfauna.comwww.gbase.cnwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opentsdb.net
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.fauna.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncFauna, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Circonus LLC.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20152014200420172011
Current release3.1.0, July 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC, Java, PythonC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes, in Luano
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyesnono

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