DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Databricks vs. etcd vs. MariaDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Databricks vs. etcd vs. MariaDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

A distributed reliable key-value store

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

www.databricks.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.databricks.com

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Brytlyt

Databricks

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1993

Current release

5.0, August 2023

3.4, August 2019

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with Databricks SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Python
R
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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