DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. Brytlyt vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. Brytlyt vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

basex.org

brytlyt.io

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

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.basex.org

docs.brytlyt.io

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BaseX GmbH

Brytlyt

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2007

2016

1989

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

11.0, June 2024

5.0, August 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

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

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

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

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

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Source-replica 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

multiple readers, single writer

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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