DBMS > EsgynDB vs. MarkLogic vs. ScyllaDB vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. MarkLogic vs. ScyllaDB vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

docs.scylladb.com

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Esgyn

MarkLogic Corp.

ScyllaDB

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

2001

2015

2020

2018

Current release

11.0, December 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
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

Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes, Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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