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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Memcached vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox

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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 key-value store, originally intended for caching

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2015

2003

2017

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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Recent citations in the news

Overhauling Apache Kylin for the cloud
18 November 2021, InfoWorld

eBay's Kylin Becomes a Top-Level Apache Open Source Project
9 December 2015, eBay Inc.

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Kylin™ as a Top-Level Project
8 December 2015, GlobeNewswire

Bringing interactive BI to big data – O'Reilly
1 May 2017, O'Reilly Media

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10 August 2021, Blocks & Files

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6 March 2018, GeekWire

Introducing mcrouter: A memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments
15 September 2014, Facebook Engineering

Why Redis beats Memcached for caching
14 September 2017, InfoWorld

Memcached DDoS: The biggest, baddest denial of service attacker yet
1 March 2018, ZDNet

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