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System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. GraphDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitebrytlyt.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgwww.ontotext.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperBrytlytGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersOntotextByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20162012201420002016
Current release5.0, August 20235.0.0, May 202410.4, October 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLlimited functionality with using 'rules'nowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoConstraint checkingno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.no
More information provided by the system vendor
BrytlytFirebase Realtime DatabaseGeoMesaGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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