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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. Newts vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

bangdb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

opennms.github.io/newts

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.bangdb.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenNMS Group

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2008

2012

1983

2014

2013

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

via plugins

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

PHP

Java

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes (enterprise version only)

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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