DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

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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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2015

2000

2014

2023

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

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

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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

Access Control Lists

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