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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. NSDb

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orgnsdb.io
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2015200620082017
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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