DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Drizzle vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Drizzle vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

brytlyt.io

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Brytlyt

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

2003

Current release

5.0, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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 proprietary extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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