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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Drizzle vs. Faircom EDGE vs. ScyllaDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Drizzle vs. Faircom EDGE vs. ScyllaDB vs. Vitess

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.scylladb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.scylladb.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFairCom CorporationScyllaDBThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162008197920152013
Current release7.2.4, September 2012V3, October 2020ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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 languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
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 proceduresnonoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, Luayes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infowhen using SQLnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes 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.noyesyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreDrizzleFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEScyllaDBVitess
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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