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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Netezza vs. ScyllaDB vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#137  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score10.18
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score5.27
Rank#67  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.scylladb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleIBMScyllaDBJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20192015200020152019
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
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
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, Luano
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsAtomic single-row operationsACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Amazon DocumentDBGoogle Cloud BigtableNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMScyllaDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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