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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Brytlyt vs. Coveo vs. NuoDB

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Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#292	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#116	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

brytlyt.io

www.coveo.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.coveo.com

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Brytlyt

Coveo

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2016

2012

2013

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

5.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

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

ACID

yes

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Apache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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