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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.scylladb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

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

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.scylladb.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

4D, Inc

ScyllaDB

SiteWhere

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

SenX

Initial release

1984

2015

2010

1998

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

PL/SQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Specific characteristics

ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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