DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Graph Engine vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Graph Engine vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	4.15
Rank	#69	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.graphengine.io

www.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

ScyllaDB

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

2019

2010

2015

2000

Current release

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
F#
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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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