DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. TDengine

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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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2015

2011

1980

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.23, February 2021

23c, September 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

with proprietary extensions

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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