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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. VoltDB

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Name

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Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	97.61
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Atos Convergence Creators

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2008

2016

2010

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1703

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

LDAP

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

LDAP bind authentication

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Apache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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