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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikispotify.github.io/­heroiclearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperRackspaceSpotifyMicrosoftScyllaDB
Initial release2013201420152015
Current releaseV1ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
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 nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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 datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BluefloodHeroicMicrosoft Azure AI SearchScyllaDB
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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