DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Firebolt vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Firebolt vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
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Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

www.firebolt.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.firebolt.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Brytlyt

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2020

2013

1994

Current release

5.0, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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