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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. ITTIA vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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	0.44
Rank	#253	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#103	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.ittia.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

ITTIA L.L.C.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2008

2007

1994

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

8.7

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

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
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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