DBMS > Newts vs. OpenQM vs. ScyllaDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. OpenQM vs. ScyllaDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.scylladb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.scylladb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

OpenNMS Group

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

ScyllaDB

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

1993

2015

2020

2018

Current release

3.4-12

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
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

C++

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

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

Role-based access control

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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