DBMS > Brytlyt vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

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

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#292	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Brytlyt

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2004

2014

2017

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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