DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. ScyllaDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. ScyllaDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

geode.apache.org

www.scylladb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.scylladb.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

ScyllaDB

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2016

2002

2015

1999

Current release

1703

1.1, February 2017

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes, on a single node

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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