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System Properties Comparison Raima Database Manager vs. Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB vs. STSdb vs. YugabyteDB

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NameRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeCassandra 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 modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websiteraima.comwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.raima.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.scylladb.comdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperRaima Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesScyllaDBSTS Soft SCYugabyte Inc.
Initial release19842009201520112017
Current release15, June 20213.2.0, December 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20244.0.8, September 20152.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen 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 languageCErlangC++C#C and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxWindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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.no infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyes infocluster global secondary indicesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
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 proceduresyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationErlangyes, Luanoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable 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 methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Raima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaRiak KVScyllaDBSTSdbYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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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 advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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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 scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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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 customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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ScyllaDB 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 modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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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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