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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. ObjectBox vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

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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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
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Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
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Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

objectbox.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.objectbox.io

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

ObjectBox Limited

ByteDance, originally Terark

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2017

2016

1998

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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