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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Axibase vs. BigObject vs. Netezza vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Score	97.71
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#307	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	6.70
Rank	#52	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.50
Rank	#144	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.bigobject.io

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Axibase Corporation

BigObject, Inc.

IBM

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2008

2013

2015

2000

2008

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

15585

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

included in appliance

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

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)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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