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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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NameOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.scylladb.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.scylladb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOracleScyllaDBSphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2011201520012019
Current release24.1, May 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Luanono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno
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Oracle NoSQLScyllaDBSphinxXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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