DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP IQ

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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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2004

2014

1994

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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