DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Tibero

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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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#279	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

brytlyt.io

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

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.heavy.ai

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2016

2008

2016

2003

Current release

5.0, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

5.10, January 2022

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

C++ and CUDA

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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