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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSDocument storeWide column storeDocument 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
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iopostgis.netravendb.netwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iopostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docsdocs.scylladb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Hibernating RhinosScyllaDBJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20152005201020152019
Current release3.4.2, February 20245.4, July 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC#C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.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
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsyesyes, Luano
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyDefault 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 datanoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLAuthorization 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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