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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. Warp 10 vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.scylladb.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

ScyllaDB

SenX

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

2015

2001

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Lua

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

optimistic locking

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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