DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. MariaDB vs. Memgraph vs. NuoDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. MariaDB vs. Memgraph vs. NuoDB vs. SWC-DB

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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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

memgraph.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

memgraph.com/docs

doc.nuodb.com

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Memgraph Ltd

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2017

2013

2020

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

11.3.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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