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DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. Blazegraph vs. ITTIA vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Blazegraph vs. ITTIA vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score98.94
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.36
Rank#272  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.ittia.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookBlazegraphITTIA L.L.C.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SiteWhere
Initial release20082006200719912010
Current release5.0-rc1, July 20242.1.5, March 20198.75.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervaloptionalyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SPARQL is used as query languageyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Database file passwordsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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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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