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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Heroic

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#367	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Spotify

Initial release

2015

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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.

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Overhauling Apache Kylin for the cloud
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eBay’s Kylin Becomes a Top-Level Apache Open Source Project
9 December 2015, eBay Inc.

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3 January 2020, i-programmer.info

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