ScyllaDB

A rewrite of Cassandra in C++ on a thread-per-core design, compatible with CQL and the DynamoDB API. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
ScyllaDB
Created by
Avi Kivity, Dor Laor
First release
2015
License
ScyllaDB Source Available License
Open source
No
Pricing
Free with paid plans
Website
https://www.scylladb.com
Written in
C++
Data model
Wide-column
Storage layout
Row-oriented
Workload
Transactions (OLTP)
Analytics architecture
Not an analytics platform
Query language
CQL, DynamoDB API
ACID transactions
No
Schema
Strict
Deployment
Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
Scaling
Natively distributed
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (Writes append to a log, extremely fast); Read: moderate (Fast by partition key, no ad hoc queries); Update: fast (An update is just another write); Delete: slow (Tombstones slow reads until compaction)

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