DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Cassandra vs. Hypertable vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Cassandra vs. Hypertable vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cachelot.io

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hypertable Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2008

2009

2020

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol

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

C++ API
Thrift

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

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

Immediate Consistency

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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