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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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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

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph 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	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2015

2006

2013

2022

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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