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DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. Blueflood vs. LevelDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Blueflood vs. LevelDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score98.94
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#348  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitecassandra.apache.orgblueflood.iogithub.com/­google/­leveldbmachbase.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookRackspaceGoogleMachbaseOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20082013201120132009
Current release5.0-rc1, July 20241.23, February 2021V8.0, August 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++CErlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnonoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP RESTgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoErlang
Triggersyesnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnonosimple password-based access controlyes, using Riak Security
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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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