DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#276	Overall
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Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.mysql.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.nuodb.com

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Brytlyt

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2010

1995

2013

2017

Current release

5.0, August 2023

V12

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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