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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Couchbase vs. HugeGraph vs. ScyllaDB vs. Vitess

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.couchbase.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.scylladb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.couchbase.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.scylladb.comvitess.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeCouchbase, Inc.BaiduScyllaDBThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20122011201820152013
Current release7.0, November 2023Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20230.9ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++, Go and ErlangJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuaFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++asynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes, Luayes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyes infovia the TAP protocolnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic Shardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyesvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoEphemeral bucketsyesyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.Users, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseHugeGraphScyllaDBVitess
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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