DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Brytlyt vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Brytlyt vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Solr

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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

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.64
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	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

phoenix.apache.org

brytlyt.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.brytlyt.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Brytlyt

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2016

2013

1994

2006

Current release

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

5.0, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

optimistic locking

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

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

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