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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Geode vs. ScyllaDB vs. Vertica

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgeode.apache.orgwww.scylladb.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.scylladb.comvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperSoftmotionsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.ScyllaDBOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2012200220152005
Current release1.1, February 2017ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infocluster global secondary indicesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
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
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, Luayes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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EJDBGeodeScyllaDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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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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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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