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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

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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	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

bangdb.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.bangdb.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2008

2012

2015

2017

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL like support with command line tool

yes, limited

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Sharding

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)

selectable replication factor

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes (enterprise version only)

Role-based access control

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Market metrics

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