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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Hive vs. Memcached vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitekylin.apache.orghive.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalquasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20152012200320092009
Current release3.1.0, July 20203.1.3, April 20221.6.25, March 20243.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infointeger and binaryno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tagsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocolHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoErlang
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Security

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