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DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Firebolt vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Firebolt vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebrytlyt.iowww.firebolt.iowww.gbase.cnwww.hawkular.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.firebolt.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperBrytlytFirebolt Analytics Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Community supported by Red HatTimescale
Initial release20162020200420142017
Current release5.0, August 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAC, Java, PythonJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandrayes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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