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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An embedded key-value store for Go.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.exasol.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.exasol.com/resources

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Exasol

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2008

2013

2000

2004

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

none

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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