DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2008

2016

2015

2013

1993

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Apache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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