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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. GBase

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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.14
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Score	1.03
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2004

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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Recent citations in the news

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9 October 2023, hackernoon.com

Overhauling Apache Kylin for the cloud
18 November 2021, InfoWorld

eBay’s Kylin Becomes a Top-Level Apache Open Source Project
9 December 2015, eBay Inc.

Top Open-Source Solutions for Business Analytics
24 March 2024, Analytics Insight

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