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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Bangdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PouchDB

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NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMS
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Score98.94
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitecassandra.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpouchdb.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.bangdb.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSachin Sinha, BangDBOracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2008201220112012
Current release5.0-rc1, July 2024BangDB 2.0, October 202124.1, May 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsoptionalno
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 indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL like support with command line toolSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users and rolesno
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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 metricsApache Cassandra 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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