DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. LevelDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. LevelDB vs. Riak KV

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score108.21
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.90
Rank#120  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score3.24
Rank#79  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Websitecassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGoogleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release200820112009
Current release5.0-rc1, July 20241.23, February 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlang
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
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 objectnoyes, using Riak Security
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache CassandraLevelDBRiak KV
News

How Hybrid Search and Rerankers Solve the GenAI Accuracy Challenge
24 April 2025

Introduction to Webhooks in Langflow: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
24 April 2025

Building Graph-Based RAG Applications Just Got Easier
23 April 2025

Scale AI Agent Speed and Savings with Langflow and NVIDIA NeMo Microservices
23 April 2025

5 Days of Accuracy: A Recipe for AI That Gets It Right
22 April 2025

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache CassandraLevelDBRiak KV
Recent citations in the news

Best practices for running Apache Cassandra with Amazon EBS
8 November 2024, Amazon Web Services

New Apache Cassandra 5.0 gives open source NoSQL database a scalability and performance boost
6 September 2024, VentureBeat

Apache Cassandra survey highlights growing adoption for AI workloads
11 November 2024, Blocks and Files

Apache Cassandra introduces version 5.0 of open-source NoSQL database
9 September 2024, techzine.eu

IBM to buy Cassandra specialist DataStax
25 February 2025, The Stack

provided by Google News

CoinLurker: The Stealer Powering the Next Generation of Fake Updates
16 December 2024, Morphisec

Pliops unveils XDP-Rocks for RocksDB
19 October 2022, Blocks and Files

Inside the "Fallguys" malware that steals your browsing data and gaming IMs; continued attack on open source software
2 September 2020, Sonatype

RocksDB - Facebook's Database Now Open Source
21 November 2013, i-programmer.info

Hackers Use New Ransomware that Encrypts Files & Steals Tokens From Victim’s Machine
21 November 2022, GBHackers News

provided by Google News

Basho Revamps Riak Open-Source Database
22 September 2023, InformationWeek

Is Riak A Good NoSQL Database Option For Enterprises?
1 July 2019, Analytics India Magazine

A Critique of Resizable Hash Tables: Riak Core & Random Slicing
26 August 2018, infoq.com

Overview of Riak, Redis and Voldermort features
2 April 2021, ResearchGate

Hulu Chooses Cassandra Over HBase and Riak
31 July 2014, Data Center Knowledge

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Present your product here