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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kdb vs. LevelDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh performance Time Series DBMSEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score5.27
Rank#67  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comkx.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.scylladb.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcode.kx.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.scylladb.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcGoogleScyllaDBSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201120152013
Current release3.6, May 20181.23, February 2021ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonqC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)noSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
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
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, LuaJavaScript
Triggersyes infowith viewsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesrights management via user accountsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectsimple password-based access control
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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