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DBMS > Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.scylladb.comwww.teradata.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.scylladb.comdocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesScyllaDBTeradataDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20152015198420182011
Current release3.0.0, September 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++Prolog, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linuxhosted
Linux
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, limitedSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
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 API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
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
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangyes, Luayes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyesno
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoHashingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
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 storednoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoin-memory tablesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication
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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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