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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Apache Doris vs. HarperDB vs. SiriDB

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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

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#235	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

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

www.harperdb.io

siridb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

HarperDB

Cesbit

Initial release

2008

2017

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1.2.2, February 2023

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

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++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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

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