DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

prometheus.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

FairCom Corporation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2008

1979

2015

2009

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

V3, October 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

links between data sets can be stored

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

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

yes, using Riak Security

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