DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ScyllaDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ScyllaDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. Tigris

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.scylladb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.scylladb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

ScyllaDB

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

2012

2018

2022

Current release

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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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

ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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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

ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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