DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. Sequoiadb

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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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Kyligence, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2016

1995

2019

2013

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

simple password-based access control

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