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System Properties Comparison PieCloudDB vs. RethinkDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

OpenPie

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

ScyllaDB

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2009

2015

2018

Current release

2.1, January 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

Supported programming languages

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Lua

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users can be defined per object

More information provided by the system vendor

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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