DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

www.graphengine.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Brytlyt

Microsoft

Chris Davis

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2010

2006

2017

1989

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

.NET and C

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Active-active shard replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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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