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.

History

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.

Website

http://www.kylin.io/

Source Code

https://github.com/apache/kylin

Tech Docs

http://kylin.apache.org/docs/

Developer

eBay

Country of Origin

CN

Start Year

2013

Former Name

KylinOLAP

Project Type

Open Source

Written in

Java

Supported languages

Java

Licenses

Apache v2

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kylin