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System Properties Comparison Kyligence Enterprise vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.monetdb.org

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Kyligence, Inc.

MonetDB BV

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2004

1994

2014

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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