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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. MaxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine

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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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.92
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	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2015

1984

2021

2007

2006

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

14.1, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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

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Specific characteristics

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