What is Apache Kylin?

Apache Kylin's official website

http://kylin.apache.org/cn/

-Extensible hyper-fast OLAP engine:

Kylin is designed to reduce the latency of billions of data queries on Hadoop

-Hadoop ANSI SQL Interface:

Kylin provides standard SQL support for most query functions for Hadoop

-Interactive query capabilities:

With Kylin, users can interact with Hadoop data in sub-second, providing better performance on the same data set than hive

-Multidimensional cubes (MOLAP cube):

Users can define data models and build cubes for more than tens of billions of datasets in Kylin

-Seamless integration with BI tools:

Kylin provides integration capabilities with BI tools such as tableau, which will soon provide integration with other tools

-Other Features:

-Job management and monitoring
-Compression and coding
-Incremental update
-Use HBase coprocessor
-Dinstinc count approximation algorithm based on Hyperloglog
-Friendly web interface to manage, monitor and use cubes
-Project and cube-level access control security
-Support LDAP

Apache Kylin is a distributed, massively on-line analysis (OLAP) platform developed and contributed to the open source community by ebay, bridging the gap in Business Analytics on Hadoop.

Apache Kylin is an open source distributed analytics engine that provides SQL query interfaces and Multidimensional Analysis (OLAP) capabilities on top of Hadoop to support ultra-large scale data, originally developed by ebay and contributed to the open source community. It can query large hive tables in sub-second.

What is Apache Kylin?