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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. jBASE vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	97.61
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.33
Rank	#158	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2008

1991

2013

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

5.7

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

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)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

hash partitioning

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

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Market metrics

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