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DBMS > Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, 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 methodScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-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
Spatial DBMS
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Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.15
Rank#69  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4vitess.io
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.scylladb.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesScyllaDBSTS Soft SCThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2009201520112013
Current release3.2.0, December 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 20244.0.8, September 201515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxWindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infocluster global secondary indicesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP 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 APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC 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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangyes, Luanoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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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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