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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. Dragonfly vs. LeanXcale

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NameArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Key-value storeWide column storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Websitearcadedb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationdocs.arcadedb.comcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
DeveloperArcade DataApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookDragonflyDB team and community contributorsLeanXcale
Initial release20212013200820232015
Current releaseSeptember 20214.1.3, July 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesJavaGoC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLua
Triggersnoyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectPassword-based authentication
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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