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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A distributed document store with a powerful search engine and in-built operational and analytical capabilities

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	116.22
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	24.86
Rank	#30	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#285	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.couchbase.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.couchbase.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Couchbase, Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2011

2016

Current release

4.1.0, December 2022

Server: 7.0, July 2021; Mobile: 3, February 2022; Couchbase Capella, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

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)

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

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Specific characteristics

Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Couchbase was architected with several differentiated capabilities: Shared-nothing,...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Over 10M downloads...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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The Community Edition (CE) of Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile are available...
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