DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. Typesense

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Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#210	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

kylin.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

typesense.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2016

2014

2015

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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