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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. CouchDB vs. Manticore Search vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score104.59
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score11.73
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#379  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitecassandra.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comorigodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablemanual.manticoresearch.comorigodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerManticore SoftwareRobert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2008200520172009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current release4.1.3, July 20233.3.3, December 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C#Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoCan index from XMLno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole based authorizationno
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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