DBMS > Brytlyt vs. InfinityDB vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. InfinityDB vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

boilerbay.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Brytlyt

Boiler Bay Inc.

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

quasardb

Initial release

2016

2002

2014

1995

2009

Current release

5.0, August 2023

4.0

2.1.12, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

integer and binary

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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