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Kylin


Kylin is an open source distributed data analytics engine on top of Hadoop/Spark. It offers SQL interface to do OLAP on large datasets. [04][05][06]

Source Code
https://github.com/apache/kylin[02]
Developer
Country of Origin
CN
Start Year
2013 [04]
Former Name
KylinOLAP
Project Type
Open Source
Written in
Java
Supported Languages
Java
License
Apache v2

Unlike massive parallel processing engines like Hive and Presto, Kylin pre-calculates a set of data cubes and directly look up the results in them. If a query cannot be answered by the data cubes, it will be executed by the underlying process engine. In this way, Kylin is usually used as an accelerator of traditional parallel data processing engines.

Database Entry

Kylin


Kylin is an open source distributed data analytics engine on top of Hadoop/Spark. It offers SQL interface to do OLAP on large datasets.

Unlike massive parallel processing engines like Hive and Presto, Kylin pre-calculates a set of data cubes and directly look up the results in them. If a query cannot be answered by the data cubes, it will be executed by the underlying process engine. In this way, Kylin is usually used as an accelerator of traditional parallel data processing engines.[04][05][06]

History[04]


The Kylin project was started in 2013, from eBay's R&D in Shanghai, China. It was open sourced on Github as "KylinOLAP" in Oct 2014.

In Nov 2015, Kylin joined Apache Software Foundation incubator;

In Dec 2015, Apache Kylin became a Top Level Project.

Citations

6 sources
  1. http://www.kylin.io kylin.io Dead — Check Archive
  2. GitHub - apache/kylin: Apache Kylin · GitHub github.com
  3. Index of /docs apache.org
  4. Apache Kylin - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
  5. http://kylin.apache.org/docs/gettingstarted/faq.html apache.org Dead — Check Archive
  6. 403 Forbidden jianshu.com Dead — Check Archive
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