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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cassandra vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Wide column store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

cassandra.apache.org

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Simer Plaha

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2015

2008

2018

2019

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes

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