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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 ElasticSearchSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-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
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.netrethinkdb.comwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikispotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperRackspaceSpotifyThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017ScyllaDB
Initial release20132014200520092015
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.4.1, August 2020ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
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 proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes, Lua
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic single-document operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.nonononoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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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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