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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. OpenQM vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.10
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#293	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	2.27
Rank	#110	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rethinkdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2015

1993

2009

2018

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

3.4-12

2.4.1, August 2020

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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)

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

range based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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