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DBMS > Blueflood vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#69  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.scylladb.comsphinxsearch.comtempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.scylladb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperRackspaceScyllaDBSphinx Technologies Inc.TempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132015200120122018
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 20243.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 infocluster global secondary indicesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Proprietary protocolHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesFor 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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Luanonoyes
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnosimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control
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BluefloodScyllaDBSphinxTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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