DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Google BigQuery vs. Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Google BigQuery vs. Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. Weaviate

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.10
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	50.58
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#201	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#261	Overall
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#147	Overall
	#9	Vector DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Google

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2010

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

10 R1, October 2018

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

MVCC

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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