DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. BoltDB vs. Brytlyt vs. GraphDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. BoltDB vs. Brytlyt vs. GraphDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#91	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

brytlyt.io

www.ontotext.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.brytlyt.io

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Brytlyt

Ontotext

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2016

2000

2013

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.0, August 2023

10.4, October 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

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