DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Initial release

2015

2014

1989

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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