DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Realm vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Realm vs. Tibero

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

cassandra.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

realm.io

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.intersystems.com

realm.io/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Brytlyt

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

InterSystems

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2008

1997

2014

2003

Current release

5.0, August 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

In-Memory realm

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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