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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#69	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.scylladb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenPie

ScyllaDB

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1995

2015

2003

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

2.1, January 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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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

PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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