DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Hive vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Hive vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

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Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

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Rank	#288	Overall
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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

brytlyt.io

hive.apache.org

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Brytlyt

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Vesoft Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2019

1994

2013

Current release

5.0, August 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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 rights for users, groups and roles

Role-based access control

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Licensing and pricing models

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