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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. FatDB vs. GreptimeDB

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NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score106.65
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orggreptime.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.greptime.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookFatCloudGreptime Inc.
Initial release200820122022
Current release5.0-rc1, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC#Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)no infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsPython
Triggersyesyes infovia applications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsSimple rights management via user accounts
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