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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Immudb vs. SwayDB

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.immudb.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Codenotary

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

2010

2020

2018

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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