DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. GigaSpaces vs. NCache vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. GigaSpaces vs. NCache vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

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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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

Alachisoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2000

2005

2015

2013

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

15.5, September 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

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

Role-based access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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