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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. ScyllaDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Key-value store

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.scylladb.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

ScyllaDB

SenX

Initial release

2012

2008

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.1.3, July 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Lua

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

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