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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. KairosDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. Titan vs. Transbase

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docskairosdb.github.iodocs.scylladb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsScyllaDBAurelius, owned by DataStaxTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20152013201520121987
Current release23.1.1, May 20231.2.2, November 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infocluster global secondary indicesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
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
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Luayesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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