DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks vs. XTDB

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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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

www.starrocks.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2021

2014

2020

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.5.3, March 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Collection-level replication

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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, tunable 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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Key-based authentication

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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