DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiteWhere

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Name

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 high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#279	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.heavy.ai

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Brytlyt

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2008

2016

2010

Current release

5.0, August 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP REST

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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