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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. Prometheus vs. ScyllaDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgreenplum.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbprometheus.iowww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.greenplum.orgprometheus.io/­docsdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperSoftmotionsPivotal Software Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.ScyllaDB
Initial release20122005200520152015
Current release7.0.0, September 2023ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCGoC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yes infosince Version 4.2nono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
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 proceduresnoyesnonoyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnoAccess 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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