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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Apache Doris vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiriDB vs. Transbase

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	97.71
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#243	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	1.34
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

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

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

siridb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.heavy.ai

docs.siridb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Cesbit

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2008

2017

2016

2017

1987

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1.2.2, February 2023

5.10, January 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Multi-source replication

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

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

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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