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System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Hive vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS

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Name

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

hive.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Brytlyt

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

Current release

5.0, August 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

10 R1, October 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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