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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Brytlyt vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.brytlyt.io

rethinkdb.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Brytlyt

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.0, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

no

yes

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

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

no

Triggers

no

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

no

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