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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Graph DBMS

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#235	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

newdatabase.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Mobiland AG

Cesbit

Initial release

2008

2017

2018

2017

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1.2.2, February 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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
MySQL client

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

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

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Windows-Profile

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Apache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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