DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL 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

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

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

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tencent

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2015

2014

2013

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

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

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.

yes

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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