DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

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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 open source SQL database for time series data

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

typedb.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Simer Plaha

Vaticle

Initial release

2015

2014

2010

2018

2016

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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)

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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