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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. BoltDB vs. Coveo

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Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An embedded key-value store for Go.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	99.19
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Score	0.60
Rank	#233	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	2.37
Rank	#107	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Website

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.coveo.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.coveo.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Coveo

Initial release

2008

2013

2012

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

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)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

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