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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. RethinkDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeWide column storeKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store
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Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteprometheus.iorethinkdb.comwww.scylladb.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.scylladb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017ScyllaDBSimer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20152009201520182019
Current release2.4.1, August 2020ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++ScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnoyes, 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.no infoImport of XML data possiblenononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)nolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-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
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Luanono
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, 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.nonoyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno
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PrometheusRethinkDBScyllaDBSwayDBXTDB 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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