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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. QuestDB vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgequestdb.iowww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlquestdb.io/­docsdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAlibabaFairCom CorporationFatCloudQuestDB Technology IncScyllaDB
Initial release20161979201220142015
Current releaseV3, October 2020ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infovia applicationsnoyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACID for single-table writesno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
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 infothrough memory mapped filesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEFatDBQuestDBScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Discord, 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 modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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