DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

brytlyt.io

www.geomesa.org

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.brytlyt.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Brytlyt

CCRi and others

Microsoft

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

1989

2016

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

5.0, August 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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