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System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TiDB vs. XTDB

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NameRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
pingcap.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.scylladb.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesScyllaDBAlex KashirinPingCAP, Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20152015202020162019
Current release3.0.0, September 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20240.5, April 20218.0.0, March 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
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 DBaaSTiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.
Implementation languageErlangC++C++Go, RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infocluster global secondary indicesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, limitedSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query languageyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
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
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
HTTP REST
JDBC
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++Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangyes, Luanonono
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infoin-memory tablesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Riak TSScyllaDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTiDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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