DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Hive vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Hive vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

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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 warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

quasardb

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2009

2013

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

3.1.3, April 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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