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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. ScyllaDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	97.71
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.93
Rank	#90	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.88
Rank	#72	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#320	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

blueflood.io

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.scylladb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.scylladb.com

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Rackspace

Google

ScyllaDB

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2013

2015

2023

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP REST

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic single-row operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access Control Lists

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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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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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

Apache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing models

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