DBMS > Blueflood vs. Brytlyt vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Brytlyt vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch vs. TigerGraph

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

brytlyt.io

www.kinetica.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.kinetica.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Rackspace

Brytlyt

Kinetica

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2013

2016

2012

2021

2017

Current release

5.0, August 2023

7.1, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Role-based access control

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