DBMS > atoti vs. BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.74
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Score	101.89
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	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.32
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	#40	Key-value stores

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	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

atoti.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cassandra.apache.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

ActiveViam

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Cloudflare

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2008

2018

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

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
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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