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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Kingbase vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2008

1999

2013

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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)

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

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

Eventual 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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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