DBMS > BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

brytlyt.io

galaxybase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.brytlyt.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Brytlyt

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2017

2014

2010

Current release

5.0, August 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C and Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined procedures and functions

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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