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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Ignite vs. Sadas Engine vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

ignite.apache.org

www.sadasengine.com

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2008

2015

2006

2015

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.0

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes, Lua

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes (replicated cache)

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single 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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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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

ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

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