DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

brytlyt.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.brytlyt.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

Amazon Web Services

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2016

2021

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1994

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

10 R1, October 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

MVCC

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.

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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