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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. BigObject vs. ITTIA

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Score	108.21
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#253	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

bigobject.io

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

BigObject, Inc.

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2008

2015

2007

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Database file passwords

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