DBMS > Altibase vs. Brytlyt vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Brytlyt vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

brytlyt.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Altibase

Brytlyt

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

1999

2016

2008

2016

1989

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.0, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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