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DBMS > BaseX vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHChris DavisCirconus LLC.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesScyllaDB
Initial release20072006201720152015
Current release11.0, June 2024V0.10.20, January 20183.0.0, September 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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 indexesyesnonorestrictedyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes, limitedSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in LuaErlangyes, Lua
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernononono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnononoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BaseXGraphiteIRONdbRiak TSScyllaDB
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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