DBMS > OrigoDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splice Machine vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison OrigoDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splice Machine vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Spatial extension of SQLite

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

origodb.com

www.scylladb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

splicemachine.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

docs.scylladb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Robert Friberg et al

ScyllaDB

Alessandro Furieri

Splice Machine

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

2008

2014

2010

Current release

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

3.1, March 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net

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#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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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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