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System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. STSdb vs. YugabyteDB

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NameOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOracles in-memory data grid solutionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Wide column store
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Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequestdb.iowww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencequestdb.io/­docsdocs.scylladb.comdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperOracleQuestDB Technology IncScyllaDBSTS Soft SCYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20072014201520112017
Current release14.1, August 2023ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20244.0.8, September 20152.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Scylla Cloud: Create real-time applications that run at global scale with Scylla Cloud, the industry’s most powerful NoSQL DBaaSYugabyteDB Managed is the fully managed database-as-a-service offering of YugabyteDB. Get started quickly, and effortlessly ensure continuous availability and limitless scale of your cloud native applications.
Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C#C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infocluster global secondary indicesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
.NET Client APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
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
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Luanoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes infoLive Eventsnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)ShardingnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurableACID for single-table writesno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptionallyyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoyes
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Oracle CoherenceQuestDBScyllaDBSTSdbYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Discord, 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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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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