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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Drizzle

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

brytlyt.io

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.brytlyt.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Brytlyt

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Initial release

2015

2016

2008

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

5.0, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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