DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiteWhere vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiteWhere vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
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Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Brytlyt

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SiteWhere

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2016

2010

2016

2010

2005

Current release

5.0, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark 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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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