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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Cachelot.io vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

In-memory caching system

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

cachelot.io

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Percona

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2015

2023

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Ubuntu

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Memcached protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

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

yes

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

none

Eventual Consistency
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

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

Access Control Lists

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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