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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Geode vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

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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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

kylin.apache.org

geode.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2015

2002

2013

2015

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.1, February 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

yes

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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