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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Databricks vs. RethinkDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Databricks vs. RethinkDB vs. Vitess

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combrytlyt.iowww.databricks.comrethinkdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.databricks.comrethinkdb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperBrytlytDatabricksThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162016201320092013
Current release5.0, August 20232.4.1, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++ and CUDAC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyeswith Databricks SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Python
R
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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