DBMS > Brytlyt vs. ClickHouse vs. GeoMesa vs. gStore vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. ClickHouse vs. GeoMesa vs. gStore vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

clickhouse.com/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Brytlyt

Clickhouse Inc.

CCRi and others

Initial release

2016

2014

2016

2013

Current release

5.0, August 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

1.2, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

simple password-based access control

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