DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Graphite vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Graphite vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.mysql.com

opentsdb.net

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Chris Davis

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2015

2006

1995

2011

2009

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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