DBMS > Blueflood vs. Brytlyt vs. Dolt vs. MySQL vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Brytlyt vs. Dolt vs. MySQL vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Widely used open source RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

brytlyt.io

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.mysql.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.dolthub.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Rackspace

Brytlyt

DoltHub Inc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2013

2016

2018

1995

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

5.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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