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DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. HBase vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb

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

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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 stackWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.20
Rank#175  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbnsdb.io
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlkairosdb.github.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2015200820132017
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.3.4, January 20211.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes: 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
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access control

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