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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. etcd vs. Firebolt vs. HBase vs. XTDB

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackA distributed reliable key-value storeHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitekylin.apache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.firebolt.iohbase.apache.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2015202020082019
Current release3.1.0, July 20203.4, August 20192.3.4, January 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersyes, watching key changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.depending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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