DBMS > Brytlyt vs. MariaDB vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. MariaDB vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#279	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	93.81
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

pouchdb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

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

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

pouchdb.com/guides

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Brytlyt

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2012

2014

1998

Current release

5.0, August 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C and C++

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

JavaScript

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

View functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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