DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#288	Overall
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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

www.firebirdsql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.gridgain.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Brytlyt

Firebird Foundation

Google

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2007

1984

Current release

5.0, August 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

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

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

PSQL

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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