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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cassandra vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PieCloudDB vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitebigobject.iocassandra.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.openpie.comwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookIBMOpenPieScyllaDB
Initial release2015200820172015
Current release4.1.3, July 20232.02.1, January 2023ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
PL/SQL
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesuser defined functionsyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleActive-active shard replicationyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BigObjectCassandraIBM Db2 Event StorePieCloudDBScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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