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

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NameBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLWidely 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 ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitebrytlyt.iowww.gbase.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iospotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperBrytlytGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.SpotifyMicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20162004201420162019
Current release5.0, August 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAC, Java, PythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.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
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#C#
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLuser defined functionsnoTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes

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