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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. RavenDB vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-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
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitebigobject.iopostgis.netprometheus.ioravendb.netwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iopostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsravendb.net/­docsdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Hibernating RhinosScyllaDB
Initial release20152005201520102015
Current release3.4.2, February 20245.4, July 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoC#C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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.noyesno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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 proceduresLuauser defined functionsnoyesyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby FederationMulti-source replicationselectable 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 ConsistencynoneDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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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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