DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hazelcast vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hazelcast vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

brytlyt.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hazelcast.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Brytlyt

FairCom Corporation

Hazelcast

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

1979

2008

2018

2021

Current release

5.0, August 2023

V3, October 2020

5.3.6, November 2023

2023.3, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Role-based access control

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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