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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Faircom DB vs. ScyllaDB vs. TerarkDB vs. Yanza

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.scylladb.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonFairCom CorporationScyllaDBByteDance, originally TerarkYanza
Initial release20121979201520162015
Current releaseV12, November 2020ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
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++
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, Luanono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanotunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnono
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon CloudSearchFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEScyllaDBTerarkDBYanza
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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