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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cassandra vs. GeoSpock vs. InfluxDB vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websiteblueflood.iocassandra.apache.orggeospock.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGeoSpockScyllaDB
Initial release2013200820132015
Current release4.1.3, July 20232.0, September 20192.7.6, April 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, JavascriptGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutiontemporal, categoricalnoyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBCHTTP API
JSON over UDP
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
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
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 proceduresnonononoyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual 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 datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users can be defined per object
More information provided by the system vendor
BluefloodCassandraGeoSpockInfluxDBScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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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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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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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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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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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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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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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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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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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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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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