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DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebrytlyt.iowww.datomic.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.datomic.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperBrytlytCognitectCCRi and othersTimescale
Initial release2016201220142017
Current release5.0, August 20231.0.7075, December 20235.0.0, May 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAJava, ClojureScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layeryes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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