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DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitekylin.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablepostgis.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncGoogleAlex Kashirin
Initial release2015201520052020
Current release3.1.0, July 20203.4.2, February 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on PostgreSQL

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