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System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. DolphinDB vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield

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NameBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#292  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websitebrytlyt.iowww.dolphindb.comgriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.griddb.netcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperBrytlytDolphinDB, IncToshiba CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Google
Initial release20162018201320102014
Current release5.0, August 2023v2.00.4, January 20225.1, August 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAC++C++ErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesnoyesyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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