DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SQream DB

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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

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2015

2010

1994

2017

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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