DBMS > Cassandra vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GigaSpaces vs. Sadas Engine vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GigaSpaces vs. Sadas Engine vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Graph DBMS
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Trend Chart

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

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

www.gigaspaces.com

www.sadasengine.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Cloudflare

Gigaspaces Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2008

2018

2000

2006

2009

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

15.5, September 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

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)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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