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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Quasardb vs. ScyllaDB vs. SwayDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.graphengine.ioquasar.aiwww.scylladb.comswaydb.simer.autempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbScyllaDBSimer PlahaTempoIQ
Initial release20102009201520182012
Current release3.14.1, January 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C++Scala
Server operating systems.NETBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsyes infocluster global secondary indicesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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
Kotlin
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, Luanono
Triggersnonononoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes infoin-memory tablesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnosimple authentication-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityQuasardbScyllaDBSwayDBTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
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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