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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Hazelcast vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle vs. OrientDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

hazelcast.com

www.oracle.com/database

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Hazelcast

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2015

2008

2009

1980

2010

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.3.6, November 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

23c, September 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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