DBMS > Brytlyt vs. GBase vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. GBase vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#292	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

www.gbase.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Brytlyt

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Spotify

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2004

2014

2016

1995

Current release

5.0, August 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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