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System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. SAP IQ vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#69	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.scylladb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.scylladb.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

ScyllaDB

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2015

1994

2015

2013

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

yes, Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple password-based access control

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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