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System Properties Comparison ScyllaDB vs. Tarantool vs. Teradata vs. Trafodion

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NameScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.scylladb.comwww.tarantool.iowww.teradata.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.scylladb.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.teradata.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperScyllaDBVKTeradataApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2015200819842014
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20242.10.0, May 2022Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterprisecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
hosted
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)Full-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Open binary protocol.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesFor 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#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, LuaLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoin-memory tablesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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ScyllaDBTarantoolTeradataTrafodion
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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