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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Newts vs. QuestDB vs. Trafodion

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycassandra.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsquestdb.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiquestdb.io/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookOpenNMS GroupQuestDB Technology IncApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162008201420142014
Current release17034.1.3, July 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsLDAPProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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