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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Newts vs. TimesTen vs. ToroDB

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Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Atos Convergence Creators

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

8Kdata

Initial release

2008

2016

2014

1998

2016

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1703

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

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

LDAP

HTTP REST
Java API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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