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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#69  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.netwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aikairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsScyllaDB
Initial release20162016201320112015
Current release5.10, January 20221.2.2, November 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
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 proceduresnononoyes, Lua
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
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 controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BigchainDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KairosDBOpenTSDBScyllaDB
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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