DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

brytlyt.io

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Brytlyt

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2016

2000

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

5.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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