DBMS > Brytlyt vs. InfluxDB vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. InfluxDB vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

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

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Brytlyt

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2004

2013

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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