DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

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

Description

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.scylladb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.scylladb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

DataStax

Microsoft

ScyllaDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2011

2015

2014

Current release

1703

6.8, April 2020

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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