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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hypertable vs. Warp 10

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Wide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphcassandra.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.warp10.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGoogleHypertable Inc.SenX
Initial release20162008201520092015
Current release2.1, December 20184.1.3, July 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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