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Name

Description

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.scylladb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.scylladb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Huawei and openGemini community

ScyllaDB

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2022

2015

2019

Current release

1.1, July 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes, each node contains all data

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Administrators and common users accounts

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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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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