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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. ScyllaDB vs. Solr

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.scylladb.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.heavy.aidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.scylladb.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperRackspaceHEAVY.AI, Inc.Circonus LLC.ScyllaDBApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132016201720152006
Current release5.10, January 2022V0.10.20, January 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20249.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnononoyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)Solr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
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
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luayes, LuaJava plugins
Triggersnonononoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoRound robinAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsoptimistic locking
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.noyesnoyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes
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BluefloodHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022IRONdbScyllaDBSolr
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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