DBMS > Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Brytlyt

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2003

2019

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial 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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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