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System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#292	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Brytlyt

CCRi and others

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2014

2001

2012

Current release

5.0, August 2023

5.0.1, July 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

no

Java, SQL

no

Triggers

yes

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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5 June 2024, PR Web

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